reflective practice

My understanding on the word reflective practice is this, 'to reflect on your past judgements so that they affect your future decisions.'
As you already know there are two types of reflective practice there is 'reflection-in-action' which is where you try out different solutions untill the problem is solved, or 'reflect-on-action' which is then you learn from the situation and try not to make mistakes like that in the future.
One man Donald Schon was trained as a philosopher but it is his work on relective practice and learning systems has made him famous. In his first book "Displacement of Concepts" (1963) (republished in 1967 as "Invention and the Evolution of Ideas" talked about ‘the ways in which categories are used to examine “things” but are not themselves examined as ways of thinking’ (Parlett 1991, quoted in Pakman 2000). This was the first stepping stone for Schon and later went on to publish many books.

We are told to use learning journals as these help with with our learning prossess. I have found since i am using my learning journal (my blog) i have been able to retain alot more information. I also feel i can use this as my own personal text book which i can refer back to at anytime.




Information found at: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-schon.htm
by Mark K. Smith