Critically reflective practitioner

However, there has been a common tendency for it to be oversimplified in practice, and, furthermore, dominant understandings of reflective practice can themselves be criticised for lacking theoretical sophistication in some respects – particularly in relation to the social and political dimensions of learning and professional practice.

For draw out learning or new knowledge from the experience. *Corresponding author. Email: neil@avenueconsulting.co.uk tive practice and critical re fl ection have such sway in the fi eld. Perhaps this points to ‘ doing ’ of them rather than their more formal theorization. Such thinking would of tication of genuinely re fl ective practice.

Reflective practice has become an influential concept in various forms of professional education, for example, in nursing and social work.

In other organisations, critical reflection may be seen as less important. Of course, it is easier to sustain reflective practice when you are working in more supportive organisations, yet we all have a personal responsibility to be critically reflective and to seek out, wherever possible, like-minded colleagues.