Donald Schon has advanced the notion that a systematic understanding of professional practice can be built on the reflective insights of skilled practitioners. The "reflective practitioner" paradigm is well suited to mediation research. A study of divorce mediation illustrates how Schon's seminal ideas can be translated into research procedures with broad applicability to a variety of mediation...

In this paper, I propose shifts in perspective and practice initial teacher education from the reflective to diffractive practitioner as a productive way of supporting new teachers prepar...

Objective This paper aims to integrate nurse practitioner literature on competence and capability with post graduate and nursing literature on e‐portfolios in order to demonstrate the potential merits of e‐portfolios in nurse practitioner education for competence and capability development. Primary Argument In the Nurse Practitioner Standards Project, competence and capability were proposed as ...

Practitioner involvement in evaluation, research, development, and other forms of disciplined inquiry that are small scale, local, grounded, and carried out by professionals who directly deliver those services is embraced across a wide range of professions as essential to good professional practice. However, little is known about the character, homogeneity or diversity, outcomes, motives, and p...