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

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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
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
Dates:	Date Event 1 May 2015 Published
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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