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Doing reflective practice : a data-led way forward
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Walsh, Steve and Mann, Steve J. (2015) Doing reflective practice : a data-led way forward. ELT Journal, 69 (4). pp. 351-362. doi:10.1093/elt/ccv018 ISSN 0951-0893.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccv018
Abstract
This article makes the case for an approach to reflective practice (RP) that is both evidence-based and data-led. We argue that, while RP within the field of TESOL enjoys a relatively high level of acceptance and status (perhaps even an orthodoxy), it has little corresponding knowledge base that demonstrates how RP ‘gets done’. We propose a need for more concrete descriptions of RP in order for teachers and teacher educators to fully engage with its possibilities, and in order to establish a knowledge base for promoting and supporting research by and for practitioners. In this article, we focus on the approaches that might be adopted to promote data-led and evidence-based reflection. Such a data-led approach would encourage the use of professional data, alongside appropriate tools (presented below) as a means of aiding and promoting practitioner reflection. In the first part of the article, we briefly outline what we consider to be some of the main challenges facing RP; in the second, we put forward a number of tools and procedures for enhancing RP and making it collaborative, data-led, and evidence-based.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | ELT Journal | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0951-0893 | ||||
Official Date: | 1 May 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 69 | ||||
Number: | 4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 351-362 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1093/elt/ccv018 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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