Towards productive reflective practice in microteaching

Reflective Practice in Nursing Care

Introduction: Reflective practice is a generic term for intellectual and affective activities that create new understanding and appreciation of experiences. Various studies have emphasized on the benefits of reflection in nursing. This article reviewed benefits and barriers of reflective practice in nursing. Methods: In this review article, library references, some scientific databases (Elsevi...

Reflective Practice in Palliative Care

Organizing Reflective Practice

This paper explores reflective practice from an organizational perspective, in order to shift the focus in management and organization studies from the individual reflective practitioner towards the organization of reflection. A framework for understanding the organization of reflection is presented, built from four existing theories: critical reflection, public reflection, productive reflectio...

Reflective practice: where now?

Reflective practice was originally conceived as a radical critique of technical rationality, and was based on the premise that knowledge generated by practitioners reflecting on their own experiences is of at least equal value to knowledge derived by ac ademics from empirical research. However, experiential knowledge from reflection-on-action now finds itself at the bottom of the hierarchy of e...

Towards healthy, productive genotypes

Selection for high productivity has been the long term focus of pig breeding programs worldwide, however, Rauw et al. (1998) highlighted that selection for productivity alone has unfavourable consequences for a number of metabolic, reproduction and health traits across species. More recently, Prunier et al. (2010) reviewed relationships between high physiological demands and the health and welf...