This blog involves a lot of reflective writing. So what is it, and why bother?It is based on Kolb's 1986 model of experiential learning.
Margaret Watson explains it in her book "Building your portfolio: the CILIP guide" like this:
"You do something.
You think about it.
You draw conclusions from the experience.
You plan how you can do it better.
You do it better".
It's an iterative process: you go round this as in a circle - repeatedly - to get the best results.
I first came across reflective learning when studying Open University courses. The OU are very fond of reflective writing! At first writing down my thoughts about something I'd learnt seemed an alien, unnatural process. However, I came to enjoy doing it, and it works for me.
Thanks for sharing this... very interesting to hear about the behind-the-scenes principles we're putting into practice.
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