Reflective Practice : Writing and Professional Development

by Bolton, Gillie

• ISBN13: 9781412908115
• ISBN10: 1412908116
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-05
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

"Reflective practice and writing can change lives. It changed mine. The very act of writing down the problem, clarifying, thinking, working through the issues, being faced to commit is powerful. Read this book and learn more." -Kenneth C. Calman, University of Durham "The book gives me fresh ideas for my teaching, solid theoretical frameworks for understanding it, infused commitment to the method, and grateful pride to be a member of this band of the searchers for truth and joy through writing." -Rita Charon, Columbia University In this fully updated and revised Second Edition author Gillie Bolton draws on her considerable experience as well as extensive research and development in the area to demonstrate and explore a creative dynamic mode of reflection and reflexivity. Using expressive and explorative writing combined with in-depth group work or mentoring and appropriate focused research, it enables deep, sensitive, critical examinations of practice. Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development offers a searching and thorough approach which increases student and professional motivation, satisfaction, and deep levels of learning. Reflection, reflexivity, narrative, metaphor, complexity, and their use, are clearly explained, and the literary and artistic methods used are firmly grounded in educational theory and pedagogical principles. The methods are appropriate to, and used worldwide by, pre-and post-experience professionals in in-service and Higher Education, in medicine, education, clinical psychology, nursing, therapy, counseling, leadership, life coaching, business management and HR development.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Preface: Mind the gap	xv
1 An introduction to reflective practice	1	(17)
2 Narrative-based practice	18	(14)
3 Through the looking-glass	32	(14)
4 Writing as a reflective practitioner	46	(20)
5 Principles of reflective practice	66	(22)
6 Pulling together: writing for peers; team creation	88	(16)
7 Why narrative?	104	(15)
8 Metaphor and poetry	119	(13)
9 Assessment and evaluation	132	(9)
10 How to begin writing	141	(22)
11 The learning journal	163	(17)
12 Writing in genre	180	(14)
13 Group processes and facilitation	194	(16)
14 Reflection on reflection	210	(3)
Bibliography	213	(20)
Index	233