Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry (eBook)

Mapping a Way of Knowing for Professional Reflective Inquiry

Nona Lyons (Herausgeber)

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2010 | 2010
XXXIII, 606 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-85744-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Philosophers have warned of the perils of a life spent without reflection, but what constitutes reflective inquiry - and why it's necessary in our lives - can be an elusive concept. Synthesizing ideas from minds as diverse as John Dewey and Paulo Freire, theHandbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry presents reflective thought in its most vital aspects, not as a fanciful or nostalgic exercise, but as a powerful means of seeing familiar events anew, encouraging critical thinking and crucial insight, teaching and learning. In its opening pages, two seasoned educators, Maxine Greene and Lee Shulman, discuss reflective inquiry as a form of active attention (Thoreau's 'wide-awakeness'), an act of consciousness, and a process by which people can understand themselves, their work (particularly in the form of life projects), and others. Building on this foundation, the Handbook analyzes through the work of 40 internationally oriented authors: - Definitional issues concerning reflection, what it is and is not; - Worldwide social and moral conditions contributing to the growing interest in reflective inquiry in professional education; - Reflection as promoted across professional educational domains, including K-12 education, teacher education, occupational therapy, and the law; - Methods of facilitating and scaffolding reflective engagement; - Current pedagogical and research practices in reflection; - Approaches to assessing reflective inquiry.

Educators across the professions as well as adult educators, counselors and psychologists, and curriculum developers concerned with adult learning will find the Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry an invaluable teaching tool for challenging times.

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Philosophers have warned of the perils of a life spent without reflection, but what constitutes reflective inquiry-and why it's necessary in our lives-can be an elusive concept. Synthesizing ideas from minds as diverse as John Dewey and Paulo Freire, theHandbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry presents reflective thought in its most vital aspects, not as a fanciful or nostalgic exercise, but as a powerful means of seeing familiar events anew, encouraging critical thinking and crucial insight, teaching and learning. In its opening pages, two seasoned educators, Maxine Green and Lee Shulman, discuss reflective inquiry as a form of active attention (Thoreau's "e;wide-awakeness"e;), an act of consciousness, and a process by which people can understand themselves, their work (particularly in the form of life projects), and others. Building on this foundation, the Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry analyzes through the work of 40 internationally oriented authors: Definitional issues concerning reflection, what it is and is notWorldwide social and moral conditions contributing to the growing interest in reflective inquiry in professional educationReflection as promoted across professional educational domains, including K-12 education, teacher education, occupational therapy, and the law, among othersMethods of facilitating and scaffolding reflective engagementCurrent pedagogical and research practices in reflectionApproaches to assessing reflective inquiryEducators across the professions as well as adult educators, counselors and psychologists, and curriculum developers concerned with adult learning will find the Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry an invaluable teaching tool for challenging times.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Acknowledgments 12
Advisors 14
Reviewers 15
Contents 19
Introduction 22
Contributors 25
Reflection and Reflective Inquiry 30
Reflection and Reflective Inquiry: Critical Issues, Evolving Conceptualizations, Contemporary Claims and Future Possibilities 32
Foundational Issues: Needed Conceptual Frameworks 52
Reflective Inquiry: Foundational Issues – “ A Deepening of Conscious Life” 53
The Role of Descriptive Inquiry in Building Presence and Civic Capacity 73
Reflective Inquiry in the Professions 90
A Critical Analysis of Reflection as a Goal for Teacher Education 94
Education for the Law: Reflective Education for the Law 112
Reflective Inquiry in the Medical Profession 127
Occupational Therapy as a Reflective Practice 157
Application of Critical Reflective Inquiry in Nursing Education 184
Reflective Inquiry in Social Work Education 198
Reflective Practice in the Professions: Teaching 214
Critical Reflection as an Adult Learning Process 240
Fostering Reflective Practice in the Public Service: A Study of the Probation Service in the Republic of Ireland 262
Facilitating and Scaffolding Reflective Engagement: Considering Institutional Contexts 279
A Child Study/Lesson Study: Developing Minds to Understand and Teach Children 281
Within K-12 Schools for School Reform: What Does it Take? 296
Reflective Inquiry in the Round 322
Professional Pedagogies and Research Practices: Teaching and Researching Reflective Inquiry 337
Inquiry for Equity: Supporting Teacher Research 340
“Doing as I Do”: The Role of Teacher Educator Self- Study in Educating for Reflective Inquiry 354
Professional Pedagogies and Research Practices: Teaching and Researching Reflective Inquiry Through a Medical Portfolio Process 372
Narrative Inquiry as Reflective Practice: Tensions and Possibilities 403
Reflection Through Collaborative Action Research and Inquiry 418
Developing Transformative Curriculum Leaders Through Reflective Inquiry 433
From Subject to Object: A Constructive- Developmental Approach to Reflective Practice* 450
Approaches to Assessing Reflective Practice and to the Ethical Dimensions of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry 467
Beginnings: Inquiry Practices: How Can They Be Taught Well? 469
Approaches to Portfolio Assessment of Complex Evidence of Reflection and Reflective Practice 489
Reflective Practice as Conscious Geometry: Portfolios as a Tool for Sponsoring, Scaffolding and Assessing Reflective Inquiry in Learning to Teach 505
The Ethical Dimensions of Reflective Practice 532
Reflective Inquiry: What Future? 542
Going to the Core: Deepening Reflection by Connecting the Person to the Profession 544
A Reflective Inquiry as Participatory and Appreciative Action and Reflection 568
Reflection and Reflective Inquiry: What Future? 585
Author Index 593
Subject Index 604

Textauszug

"Part III Reflective Inquiry in the Professions (p. 63-64)

Part III of the Handbook takes up a major component of the work to offer a rich set of data useful for comparisons, presenting a set of overviews of reflective inquiry in several professions: teacher education, the law, medicine, occupational therapy, nursing, social work, teaching, adult education and probation services. These vignettes comprise state of the art views of reflective practice within the profession, a brief historical overview, a description of the conceptualization of reflection, how it is employed and a view of where the profession is today and might be in the future. In brief, these chapters present nine professions.

Chapter 4: Teacher Education

Ken Zeichner and Katrina Yan Liu, the authors of this chapter, discuss different views of reflection as a goal for teacher education over the last 30 years. The authors do this with three critical questions in mind: the degree to which reflection in teacher education has resulted in genuine teacher development; the extent to which the goal of reflection has contributed to educational equity; and, the relationship between the goal of preparing reflective teachers and what we know about the realities of teachers’ work. Certain striking things are revealed: that in the 1970s there was no sizable research on teachers’ work and no real discussion of teacher thinking. This is an excellent opening discussion appropriate for looking historically at teaching and teacher education today. Also included in this chapter is a contrast case examining reflective practice in China.

Chapter 5: Education for the Law

In this chapter, author Filippa Anzalone traces the progress of legal education from the emphasis on a case-dialog method of its originator, Christopher Columbus Langdell of the Harvard Law School, to today’s experimentation and reform highlighting reflective practice. With the goal of teaching students and moving them from novices to expert levels, to think like a lawyer, the case method is nearly legendary in education for the law. Yet it is this method that is being challenged today, charged with being too pro forma, rigid, and cutting off useful questioning and critical thinking. Reflective practice is seen as providing opportunities to examine and test beliefs, one’s own as well as those of the profession. This chapter reviews this history and introduces ways of approaching teaching reflective practice for a new goal."

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.4.2010
• Zusatzinfo: XXXIV, 606 p. 40 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Schlagworte: Adult Education • Assessing Reflective Inquiry • Conceptual Framework • Education • Ethical Issues of Reflective Inquiry • Future of Reflective • Future of Reflective Inquiry • Learning and Instruction • medical education • Nursing education • professional education • Professional Pedagogies • Professional Research • Reflective Engag • Reflective Engagement • Reflective Inquiry • Reflective Inquiry Professions • Teaching Reflective Inquiry
• ISBN-10: 0-387-85744-3 / 0387857443
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-85744-2 / 9780387857442