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Abstract: What It Means to Be a Critically Reflective Teacher. Becoming Critically Reflective: A Process of Learning and Change. Learning to Know Ourselves: The Value of Autobiography. Surprised by the Familiar: What Autobiographies Reveal. Seeing Ourselves Through Our Students' Eyes. Understanding Classroom Dynamics: The Critical Incident Questionnaire. Holding Critical Conversations About Teaching. Solving Problems Collaboratively: The Good Practices Audit. Storming the Citadel: Reading Theory Critically. Using the Literature of Critical Reflection. Negotiating the Risks of Critical Reflection. Creating a Culture of Reflection.

Abstract: Reflection is a technique for aiding and reinforcing learning, used in education and professional development. This volume offers practitioners and students guidance that cuts across theoretical approaches, enabling them to understand and use reflection to enhance learning in practice.

Abstract: Thinking, particularly reflective thinking or inquiry, is essential to both teachers’ and students’ learning. In the past 10 to 15 years numerous commissions, boards, and foundations as well as states and local school districts have identified reflection0 inquiry as a standard toward which all teachers and students must strive. However, although the cry for accomplishment in systematic, reflective thinking is clear, it is more difficult to distinguish what systematic, reflective thinking is. There are four problems associated with this lack of definition that make achievement of such a standard difficult. First, it is unclear how systematic reflection is different from other types of thought. Second, it is difficult to assess a skill that is vaguely defined. Third, without a clear picture of what reflection looks like, it has lost its ability to be seen and therefore has begun to lose its value. And finally, without a clear definition, it is difficult to research the effects of reflective teacher education and professional development on teachers’ practice and students’ learning. It is the purpose of this article to restore some clarity to the concept of reflection and what it means to think, by going back to the roots of reflection in the work of John Dewey. I look at four distinct criteria that characterize Dewey’s view and offer the criteria as a starting place for talking about reflection, so that it might be taught, learned, assessed, discussed, and researched, and thereby evolve in definition and practice, rather than disappear.