In 1601, the British ship captain James Lancaster tested what was then a little known innovation in naval dietary practice when he set sail for India with a fleet of four ships. While the crew of three of his ships followed their usual diets, all of the men on the fourth were required to consume a teaspoon of lemon juice three times a day. The utility of this innovation was irrefutable. By half...

In recent decades, it is observed that social work agencies have participated actively, and thus, have gradually been more influential in social work education in Hong Kong. The neo-liberal welfare ideologies and changing funding mode have transformed the landscape in social work practice and have also had a major influence on the fieldwork environment in Hong Kong. The aim of this research is ...

The importance of reflection and reflective practice are frequently noted in the literature; indeed, reflective capacity is regarded by many as an essential characteristic for professional competence. Educators assert that the emergence of reflective practice is part of a change that acknowledges the need for students to act and to think professionally as an integral part of learning throughout...

and Michele Long, MD Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California; Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California Address correspondence to Lavjay Butani, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis Medical Center, Ticon 2, Room 348, 2516 Stock...

This article focuses on how confession operates in contemporary discourses on reflective practices. By revisiting and mobilising Foucault’s genealogy of confession in relation to how reflective practices are mobilised in an in-service training programme for health care assistants (HCA) in elderly care, it is argued that the HCAs are shaped as their own confessors. It is further argued that we n...

The aim of this study is to combine the practice of reflective teaching and technology. With the help of a group created on Facebook which was accessible only to the group members taking part in the reflective teaching process, an interactive discussion environment was created and the student teachers commented on each others’ performances based on the diaries prepared after each practice. Afte...

This case study focused on the electronic portfolio (e-portfolio) as a portrait of teacher growth in an in-service chemistry education graduate program. The e-portfolio provided a multimedia space for systematic documentation of teacher professional growth within the domain of reflective practice. In this study, the outcome and illustration of authentic growth was theorized and evaluated using ...