Reflection

Question 1

What is reflection?

Answer 1

Reflection is a careful re-examination and evaluation of:

• experience
• beliefs
• knowledge

and it often involves looking back and reviewing past action

Question 2

What can reflection lead to?

Answer 2

New perspectives and ways of doing

Question 3

What is reflective practice? 3

Answer 3

Reflective practie is a process by which you:

1. stop and think about your practice
2. conciously analyse your decision making
3. draw on theory and relate it to what you do in practice

Question 4

What do practitioners engage in reflective practice?

Answer 4

In reflective practice, practiotioners engage in a continuous cycle of self-observation and self-evaluation in order to understand their own action and th reaction they prompt in themselves and learners

Question 5

Describe reflective practice in a nutshell.

Answer 5

In a nutshell, reflective practice invovles thinking about and criticially analysing one’s actions with the goal of improving one’s professional practice.

Question 6

What does critical reflection involve? 4

Answer 6

1. Assumption analysis
2. Contextual awareness
3. Imanginative speculation
4. reflective skepticism

Question 7

Describe assumption analysis

Answer 7

challenging our beliefs and social structures in order to determine their impact on our practice

Question 8

Decribe contextual awareness

Answer 8

determining the social and cultural contexts that influence our assumptions

Question 9

Describe imaginative speculation

Answer 9

imagining alaternative ways of thinking in order to challenge our current ways of thinking

Question 10

Describe reflective skepticism

Answer 10

questioning universal claims or unexamined interactions by suspending or temporarily rejecting previous knowledge about the subject

Question 11

What is critical reflection?

Answer 11

Criticial reflection analyses experience by exploring social, political, educational and cultural contexts and exposing the assumptions that dictate response

Question 12

What does critical reflection enable us to do? 5

Answer 12

1. To engage in transformative learning by engaging both reason and emotion
2. To situate ourselves with a broader social context
3. To understand our values, beliefs and biases
4. To work through seemingly contradictory feelings, reactions and understandings in order to better work with clients
5. to assess our learning so that our learning informs our practice

Question 13

What are the types of reflection? 2

Answer 13

1. Reflection-in-action
2. Reflection-on-practice

Question 14

What is reflection in action? 2

Answer 14

Reflection in action means:

1. one thinks about what one is doing whilst one is doing it
2. this allows one to change one’s course of action while doing it

Question 15

What is reflection on practice?

Answer 15

Reflection on practice means:

1. one analyses one’s actions and understands one’s actions in terms of the outcome of the action

Question 16

Why practice reflection? 3

Answer 16

1. For professional development
2. For professional accountability
3. Person development

Question 17

In order to achieve a more holistic approach to reflective learning, what needs to be taken into account? 3

Answer 17

Professionals’:

1. Feelings
2. Beliefs

may influece their practice and need to be taken into account in order to achieve a more holistic approach to reflective learning

Question 18

List the steps involved in the reflective process 4

Answer 18

1. Describe
2. Analyse
3. Evaluate
4. Plan

Question 19

Describe the following reflective practice: Describe 1

Answer 19

What happened

Question 20

Describe the following reflective practice: analyse/interpret 3

Answer 20

1. Why it happened
2. How did it make you feel
3. What does it mean

Question 21

Describe the following reflective practice: evaluate 2

Answer 21

1. How did it affect you
2. What did you learn

Question 22

Describe the following reflective practice: plan

Answer 22

Going forward, what will you do differently or the same?