Towards the reflective science communication practitioner

The Reflective Practitioner Perspective in Software Engineering

The Reflective Practitioner Perspective in eXtreme Programming

This paper examines ways by which a reflective mode of thinking may improve eXtreme Programming (XP) practices. It describes the reflective practitioner perspective and suggests specific ways in which such an approach may be interwoven into XP practices. Specifically, the focus is placed on the construction of ladders of reflection. These ladders illustrate how one may increase the level of abs...

The Significance of the Reflective Practitioner in Blended Learning

This is a case study paper concerned with the introduction of blended learning on a part-time higher education programme for mature students. The interpretive work draws on four action research cycles conducted over two years with two student cohorts. Discussion is based on observations, staff and student focus groups and interviews examining the students’ expectations

A Composable Reflective Communication Framework

A communication service is described by an abstract protocol that specifies a set of roles to be played by participants, the requirements on role players and installation information. The (dynamic) installation of a protocol requires no knowledge or modification of the component itself; it is sufficient to encapsulate each component in a layer that implements the role it is to play, affecting o...

ChromaKey: Towards Extensible Reflective Architectures

Reflection allows programmers to inspect and modify the structural and runtime properties of a software system. Traditionally, the architecture of a reflective system has been a monolithic part of the runtime system, featuring a fixed semantics. Mirror-based reflective architectures decouple the base-level entities from their meta-level counterparts. In this work, we explore ChromaKey, a design...