Six reflection tips

Often when working with new career practitioners on reflective practice, I get a flavour of the learner  being intellectually curious, but r...

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A written reflection example

I think most of us in the social sciences are conversant with Borton's model of reflection (1970): the three stage reflection model: ...

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Reflection for career practitioners

Reflection is a core skill practiced by many in social service roles, including career development. It "is conscious, experientially in...

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Writing and reflection

If we aren't familiar with reflective writing, but want to give it a try, there is a simple exercise we can do. Over four days, taking m...

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Reflecting on PD

Over the past couple of years I have written a few posts on the intersection between professional development and reflection ( here , and lo...

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PD sanctions and benefits

I have written a couple of posts about professional development logs ( here ), but a few things about PD are still niggling. Firstly, should...

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Professional development reflection logs

My curious nature means that I do a lot of annual PD: usually over 400 hours (of courses, conferences and reading). The professional organis...

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Beginning to reflect

Recently I had a question from a student asking, when we are new to the field, how do we reflect on our practice? A great question. My adv...

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A galactic outcome: 6 million words

Reflection: what is it good for? Well, long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I reached a milestone of 6 million words in my 750words ac...

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What is critical reflection

Critical reflection has been a "process of becoming critically aware of how [...] we see ourselves and our relationships [...] and act...

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The benefits of reflection

When we are learning something new, we need to reflect to embed our learning. By creating the space to reflect on our learning, we will not ...

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A primer on reflecting

In career practice, a key way of ensuring we progress is to we need to reflect. We think deeply about what frightens us; what we are worried...

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Ten PhD preparatory tasks

Starting a PhD is scary. It is a huge chunk of our life if we are a young student and able to do this following on from our undergrad degree...

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Two reflective models for career practice

Earlier this year, a student asked "I thought the reflection might have been supposed to be about the case, but [is] it [about] what ha...

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