Reflective Practice and Professional Development
- Peter Tarrant - Edinburgh University, UK
Continuing Professional Development | Higher & Further Education (general) | Reflective Practice
The book includes:
- traditional approaches to reflective practice
- how to enhance the effectiveness of reflective practice
- putting reflective practice in context
- how reflective practice can improve attainment for students and staff
- an Appendix of useful resources.
With case studies and examples of relective practice from trainee teachers and from students studying across a range of Education courses, this book equips the reader to develop their own reflective practice framework. Relevant also to practitioners working across the children's workforce, it encourages personal and professional development for the whole range of professionals working in education and care.
Peter Tarrant is a Teaching Fellow at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh.
A thought-provoking text, which will help students make reflection an ongoing feature of their professional development.
This text is easy to navigate and digest. The questions for reflection at the end of sections within the book provide useful tools for the reflective practitioner. Not only is this book useful for students on the foundation degree in early years, but it could also be useful for learners operating at a higher level for those studying vocational level 3 childcare courses.
This will be a useful book for our professional development module.
Pragmatic approach - useful 'how to' information for students backed up with relevant theory. Links with practice and PDP for students.
This will prove a really useful text.
I feel this draws the reflective process into an engaging read for both students and professionals alike. The author delivers challenges for the student and how the professionals can embed reflective practice
This book was targeted primarily at the teaching profession and I did not feel there was enough consideration of how the schema suggested might apply to other professions. Some good definitions and exploration of the concept of reflection though.
This book draws together many reflective strands.It discusses the use of reflection in an easily understood format.It gives some useful models and advise for reflective practice.the sectiosn on the usage of reflection for professioanl devlopmnet are very useful.
A very interactive text that has an engaging layout. A useful text that offers an opportunity to develop understanding of the topic
Key concepts have been presented logically, the challenges faced by many practitioners when engaging in the reflective process and developing core skills are clearly presented. The chapter overview, questions to be considered and the use of case studies encourages the student to test their knowlede and develop independant independant learning
