Guide to promoting reflection in practice: The role of the practice educator

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Introduction
What do we mean by reflective practice?
Critically reflective practice
The role of action in reflective practice
Swampy lowlands of critical practice
Creating the reflective space: Collaboration and co-constructing knowledge
Creating the reflective space: Models and frameworks for supervision
Kolb’s learning cycle
Davys and Beddoe’s reflective learning model
Question-based frameworks
Developing reflection in the new student
Reflective images, distortions and filters
Schön and reflecting in and on action
Exercises to develop on-action reflection: Reflective journal and the critical incident analysis
          Reflective journal
          Critical incident analysis
Exercises to develop in-action reflection: Capturing own and others’ internal conversations
Why might some students struggle with reflective practice?
Conclusion
References

Introduction
If there is one unifying theme which runs through all social work literature, it is the importance of critical reflection in social work practice.