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Your Essential Guide to Effective Reflective Practice: Improving Practice through Self-Reflection and Writing
216 pages, Hardcover
Published February 12, 2025
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March 18, 2025
I was disappointed by this book. On the one hand, it seems very pedestrian, often stating the obvious, and in a rather boring style. For example: 'if you are neurodivergent, you may come at learning in ways that are not neurotypical.' Who could have foreseen that? And the conclusion they reach on this topic: 'Clearly there are many types of neurodivergence and there is no one-size-fits-all approach.' This kind of platitude is wearing - telling the reader nothing they didn't know, and making this reader, at least, feel that they felt they had to address the issue of neurodiversity (for reasons) but actually had nothing to say.
And then there is all the stuff about learning styles, without any acknowledgement that many of the claims made about learning styles have been disproven. So one wonders at their credibility. It is as though they have collected stuff they've picked up on workshops and put their favourite bits into this book, without any serious reflection (ironic, huh?)
Finally, there's a host of assumptions (and indeed assertions) made without foundation. For example, the idea that reflective practice has to start with a clear learning intention. But much of my practice, for example, is helping people to reflect on stuff that happens, and learn from that.
So boring, ill-informed and irritating; and yet there is some useful stuff in there - nothing I hadn't previously encountered, but if one were new to the topic, one might find some helpful ideas.
And then there is all the stuff about learning styles, without any acknowledgement that many of the claims made about learning styles have been disproven. So one wonders at their credibility. It is as though they have collected stuff they've picked up on workshops and put their favourite bits into this book, without any serious reflection (ironic, huh?)
Finally, there's a host of assumptions (and indeed assertions) made without foundation. For example, the idea that reflective practice has to start with a clear learning intention. But much of my practice, for example, is helping people to reflect on stuff that happens, and learn from that.
So boring, ill-informed and irritating; and yet there is some useful stuff in there - nothing I hadn't previously encountered, but if one were new to the topic, one might find some helpful ideas.
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