Creating a guide for reflective practice: applying Dewey's reflective thinking to document faculty scholarly engagement. Issue 4 (3rd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Greenberger, Scott W.
• Is Part Of: Reflective practice. Volume 21:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 458
• Page End: 472
• Publication Date: 2020-07-03
• Subjects: Boyer model -- higher education -- John Dewey -- reflective thinking -- reflective practice -- scholarly engagement; Professions -- Periodicals; Reflection (Philosophy) -- Periodicals; Thought and thinking -- Periodicals; Self-knowledge, Theory of -- Periodicals; Career development -- Periodicals; 370.15
• DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2020.1773422
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1462-3943

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article introduces the creation of a guide for reflective practice to document faculty scholarly engagement. As the editor for a journal designed to showcase scholarship of application and integration, I recognized the need for a guide to help faculty structure reflective practice and document their practical and scientific contributions. John Dewey's seminal framework on reflective thinking was used as a conceptual scaffolding to create the guide. There is a discussion of the challenges in interpreting Dewey's work in creating the guide, and I explain choices made that deviate from Dewey's original work on reflective thinking. I recommend expanding the guide to a method that education researchers or scholar-practitioners could use to systematically inquire about problems of practice.