There are different types of reflection
• Descriptive reflection
• Dialogic reflection
• Critical reflection
Gain from reflective practice:
Learning process: Reflective practice helps a person to engage in a learning process. In reflective practice, a person steps back and think about his experiences. It helps in learning from his experiences
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In critical reflection a person breaks down issues into small steps and tries to solve the issues.
Problem solving: Reflective practice enhances the problem solving skills in a person. It helps a person to see things from different perspective and to solve issues accordingly.
Improving teaching/learning process: It helps in improving teaching and learning process. With the help of reflection a person continuously check his activities and tries to make improvements.
Personal change: When a person reflects on his experience he finds out the problems and relevant solutions of the problem. This will help in bringing change in ideas and beliefs.
Professional growth: Critical reflection helps the person to look at his weak points and helps him in overcoming his weaknesses. This will lead towards professional growth.
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In the above example the teacher engages in a dialogue with self and tries to find out the positive and negative aspects of the experience and makes conclusion.
Critical reflection: This level of reflection is also known as deep reflection. At this level, the reflection is done more deeply. A person critically analyzes the reasons and judgments made by him in the perspective of situation. Now the person thinks about the possible solutions of the problems and ways of tackling the situation next time. Critical reflection engages a person in transformational learning in which the views, perspectives and beliefs of a person changes.
Critical reflection is important because in this way a person critically analyzes his judgments and conclusions. He learns from his experiences and finds ways and methods to improve his weak areas so that he will be able to handle the situation in a better way in future.
Example:
For example a teacher reflects on the problem that children copy their home work from guide books. The teacher analyzes the problem and concludes that he gave the questions from the book and most of the students find the questions difficult. That’s why they copy questions from guide books. After critically analyzing the conclusion and reasons the teacher decided to change his