Full Description
The aim of the book is to explain a range of options for implementing the reflective practice cycle in educational settings in various international contexts. It presents a series of empirical case studies illustrating many different ways of implementing the reflective practice cycle, and how they can be researched by practitioners and academics. Increasing attention is given by teachers and teacher educators to the construct and implementation of reflective practice as a form of bottom-up, autonomous professional development. The aim of the book is to explain a range of options for implementing the reflective practice cycle in educational settings in various international contexts. Written by international academics, these studies show how reflection can be interpreted in different cultural contexts. The book concludes with a discussion by Anne Burns of the implications of these case studies for action research. It is hoped that the book will enable practitioners, and their mentors, to consider how best to implement reflective procedures in the specific contexts in which they work. Chapters in the book include:
• Lesson planning: The fundamental platform for reflecting for action
• Reflecting on action: Lesson transcripts
• Pair discussions for reflecting on action: Stimulated recall
• Observation leading to reflection
This book will be key reading for researchers in the fields of teacher education.
Contents
Notes on contributors
Transcript conventions
Introduction
Overview: Holistic Reflective Practice
1. Lesson planning: The fundamental platform for reflecting for action
2. Reflecting for action: Collaborative lesson planning
3. Reflecting for and on action: Interviews
4. Observation leading to reflection
5. Reflecting in action: Recording private speech
6. Reflecting in action: Think aloud
7. Reflecting on action: A framework to analyse teacher talk
8. Pair discussions for reflecting on action: Stimulated recall
9. Journal writing as a space for reflection: The concept of kotodama
10. Reflecting on action: Open post-lesson discussions
11. Collaborative reflecting on action: Focus groups
12. Reflecting on action: Lesson transcripts
13. Envoi: From reflective practice to action research?
Index
