Reflection!

What is reflection?

When thinking about reflection my immediate thought is to recall a past event or experience. I would then evaluate it by asking questions such as, if I had to relive it again what would I have done differently? I would also ask simple questions such as, what were the positives and negatives of the event or experience?

Throughout our lives we continue to reflect on the events and experiences that we go through. However we do not always realise that we are doing it. An example of this would be a young child losing a family pet for the first time. You would then reflect by evaluating what has happened, why it happened, would it be similar the next time it happens, and how do you move forward from here?

After looking through research online about reflection I came across an interesting website which has a quote from John Dewey who says, “We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience.”

It also mentions metacognition which consists of developing an action plan, monitoring the plan and evaluating the plan. This is also important when it comes to my university course as it is something that we are beginning to learn about. 

This is a diagram showing metacognition:

Below I created a flowchart on the reflective process which I created on bubbl.us.

References

Reflective Practice - Reflection for Learning. 2013. Reflective Practice - Reflection for Learning [ONLINE] Available at: https://sites.google.com/site/reflection4learning/why-reflect 

bubbl.us | brainstorm and map online. 2013. bubbl.us | brainstorm and map online. [ONLINE] Available at: https://bubbl.us/