Developing critically reflective practice

Reflective practice has become an influential concept in various forms of professional education, for example, in nursing and social work. However, there has been a common tendency for it to be oversimplified in practice, and, furthermore, dominant understandings of reflective practice can themselve...

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Published in:Reflective practice 2012-04, Vol.13 (2), p.311-325
Main Authors: Thompson, Neil, Pascal, Jan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
beyond Schön
critically reflective practice
Curriculum development
Educational sociology
Reflective teaching
sociology
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Summary:Reflective practice has become an influential concept in various forms of professional education, for example, in nursing and social work. However, there has been a common tendency for it to be oversimplified in practice, and, furthermore, dominant understandings of reflective practice can themselves be criticised for lacking theoretical sophistication in some respects - particularly in relation to the social and political dimensions of learning and professional practice. This paper therefore seeks to clarify the theoretical underpinnings of reflective practice and to propose developments in relation to the missing sociological elements. It briefly reviews current dominant understandings of reflective practice before proposing developments in the theory base to make it more theoretically sophisticated in general and more sociologically informed in particular. In this way, the foundations for a critically reflective practice are sketched out.
ISSN:1462-3943
1470-1103
DOI:10.1080/14623943.2012.657795