Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Educational Leadership / Royce Ann Collins / This exploratory study investigated reflective thinking by professionals in the workplace and relationships between participant demographics and reflective thinking. The Questionnaire for Reflective Thinking (QRT) was used to assess the quality of reflective thinking in a sample (n = 102) of individuals certified by the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) as Certified Performance Technologists (CPT) (N = 697). Business leaders seek employees who practice reflective thinking. Employers and students expect college coursework to provide the needed skills and educators recognize this need. Researchers have developed reliable measures of reflective thinking, but the quality of reflective thinking practiced by professionals in the workplace is not known. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used to examine QRT scores for habitual action, understanding, reflection, and critical reflection, with respect to the demographic variables of gender, age, years of experience, education level, and academic discipline. Significant relationships between age and scores for habitual action, experience and scores for habitual action, education level and scores for understanding, gender and scores for critical reflection, and experience and scores for critical reflection were identified. No other differences in QRT scores based on the independent variable gender, age, experience, education level, or academic discipline were statistically significant.

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INTRODUÇÃO: As Diretrizes Curriculares para os Cursos de Enfermagem afirmam que a estrutura dos cursos deve garantir um ensino crítico, reflexivo e criativo, orientado pelo princípio de ação-reflexão-ação. Acompanhando os movimentos nacionais, o Curso de Enfermagem da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) realizou mudanças curriculares, que culminaram na proposição do Currículo Integrado em 2000. Várias avaliações desse currículo foram realizadas, mas nenhuma sob o enfoque da competência crítica e reflexiva. OBJETIVO: Analisar a formação crítica e reflexiva no contexto de um currículo integrado. PERCURSO METODOLÓGICO: Realizou-se uma pesquisa qualitativa, cujo método de interpretação foi a hermenêutica-dialética. O estudo foi realizado no Centro de Ciências da Saúde da UEL. O foco foi o Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram os docentes que vivenciam o projeto pedagógico do Currículo Integrado. Nas entrevistas, buscou-se verificar a percepção de docentes sobre o que vem a ser a competência crítica-reflexiva, como desenvolver essa capacidade e o que tem sido realizado no Curso para esse fim. Concomitante às entrevistas foram analisadas as resoluções e deliberações relativas às alterações do projeto pedagógico ocorridas no período de 2000 a 2012 e dois livros publicados sobre o currículo. RESULTADOS: A análise dos documentos revelou que o Currículo Integrado sofreu alterações para possibilitar sua viabilização na prática, tendo em vista condicionantes não sopesadas quando de sua concepção. Ainda assim, os princípios filosóficos e socioculturais conservaram-se inalterados e levam em conta uma reflexividade de cunho sociocrítico e emancipatório. Com base nos referenciais de pensamento crítico e reflexivo de Schön e Freire, identificaram-se duas categorias empíricas oriundas das concepções do pensamento crítico manifestadas pelos professores: uma tradicional-liberal e uma concepção mista, na qual foram identificados elementos relacionados a uma visão sociocritica e emancipatória da competência crítica e reflexiva. As categorias empíricas em relação à prática docente foram: levar estudante a relacionar os conteúdos teóricos à prática; fazer perguntas, aplicar metodologias ativas e usar processos avaliativos. Quanto às fortalezas foram mencionadas: a integração de conteúdos básico-clínico, a manutenção das áreas de conhecimento e as metodologias ativas. As fragilidades foram: o tempo restrito, o contexto do processo de trabalho docente, o despreparo e a falta de intencionalidade do professor e a postura do estudante frente à nova situação de aprendizado. CONCLUSÃO: Conclui-se que o pensamento e a atitude docente em relação a sua própria reflexão-ação e ao que preconiza o Currículo Integrado no que diz respeito ao pensamento crítico e reflexivo precisam ser revisitados a fim de resgatar a proposta pedagógica original. Espera-se que este trabalho possa instrumentalizar as escolas de Enfermagem que tem um Currículo Integrado ou que estão em processo de reformulação curricular. / INTRODUCTION: Curriculum Guidelines for Nursing Courses claim that the structure of the courses must secure a critical, reflective and creative teaching, guided by the action-reflection-action principle. Following national movements, the Nursing course at the State University of Londrina (UEL) made curriculum changes that culminated in the proposition of the Integrated Curriculum in 2000. Several evaluations of this curriculum were made, but none under the approach of critical and reflective competency. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the critical and reflective training in the context of an integrated curriculum. METHODOLOGY: We conducted a qualitative study using the dialectical-hermeneutic interpretation method. The study was conducted at the Center for Health Sciences at UEL. The focus was on the Undergraduate Program in Nursing. The subjects were teachers who experience the pedagogical project of Integrated Curriculum. In the interviews, we sought to verify the perception of teachers about what they consider to be the critical-reflective competence, how to develop this ability and what has been done in the course for this purpose. Concurrent to the interviews, resolutions and deliberations were analyzed concerning the pedagogical changes that occurred in the period from 2000 to 2012 and two books published about the curriculum. RESULTS: The analysis of the documents revealed that the Integrated Curriculum has changed to enable its feasibility in practice in view of constraints not considered when it was designed. Still, the philosophical and sociocultural principles kept unchanged and take into account a socio-critical and emancipatory reflexivity. Based on the benchmarks of Schön and Freires critical and reflective thinking, two empirical categories were identified, derived from conceptions of critical thinking expressed by teachers: a traditional-liberal one and a mixed one, in which elements have been identified related to a socio-critical and emancipatory point of view of the critical and reflective competence. The empirical categories in relation to the teaching practice were: lead student to relate the theoretical contents to the practice, ask questions, apply active methodologies and use evaluation processes. Regarding positive aspects, the following ones were mentioned: the integration of basic and clinical contents, the maintenance of areas of knowledge and active methodologies. Weaknesses were: limited time, the context of the teaching process, the teachers unpreparedness and lack of intentionality and the students attitude towards the new learning situation. CONCLUSION: We concluded that the thought and teaching attitude regarding his/her own reflection-action and advocating the Integrated Curriculum with regard to critical and reflective thinking need to be revisited in order to re-establish the original pedagogical proposition. It is hoped that this work can equip Nursing Schools that have an integrated curriculum or are in the process of curriculum reform.

This qualitative study described non-science undergraduate majors' responses to controversial issues embedded in an introductory level environmental science course in a liberal arts college located in the southeastern United States. Participants enrolled in this 12-week summer course were both traditional college-age (late teens to early twenties) and non-traditional age student (thirties to fifties). Approximately 76 percent were female. Students demonstrated various lifestyles (e.g., gay, single-parent, living at home), socioeconomic statuses (e.g., middle-income, low income), employment (e.g., employed, unemployed, ex-military) and ethnicities. The structure of the environmental science course was consistent with the science education reform movement standards applied to K-12 public schools, but not yet pervasive in higher education. Some of the reform techniques included use of open discussion format, cooperative learning, field trips, classroom demonstration, and v arious media. The theoretical framework for the study was using controversial issues in science to stimulate cognitive dissonance, which may provide a pathway to higher level reflective thinking. Controversial issues triggering a response in students showed elements of injustice and unfairness. Examples included the CHEERS pesticide study on children in Jacksonville, Florida; human radiation experimentation, including the use of depleted uranium in military conflicts; and local groundwater cases that exhibited environmental racism. The study showed the use of controversial issues in the environmental science course stimulated reflective thinking and encouraged the expression of environmental advocacy beyond the classroom. Students expressed participation in energy and water conservation, recycling practices, political involvement, and joining environmental groups. Students shared information with outsiders, such as family, friends, and co-workers when they deemed it personally or societally relevant (e.g., pertaining to family, health, safety, homelife, politics). Generational differences in students were observed in their openness to discuss controversial issues, ability to self-express, attitude toward the environment, quality of writing, and involvement in the educational process.

The purpose of this case study is to examine how pupils in Elementary School (ages 8-9) use critical reflection to solve a technical problem in a technology lesson. Our theory is based on Rodgers’ (2002) interpretation of John Dewey’s thoughts about reflective thinking, as expressed in his books How We Think (1910/1933a) and Experience & Education (1938). We used a method-combination to collect data by audio recording, and by observation with note taking during a technology class where six groups each solved a technical problem. The results show that all groups used critical reflection to solve a technological problem, but further research is required to confirm that critical reflection is generally used by elementary school pupils in technology class to help solve technology problems.

INTRODUÇÃO: As Diretrizes Curriculares para os Cursos de Enfermagem afirmam que a estrutura dos cursos deve garantir um ensino crítico, reflexivo e criativo, orientado pelo princípio de ação-reflexão-ação. Acompanhando os movimentos nacionais, o Curso de Enfermagem da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) realizou mudanças curriculares, que culminaram na proposição do Currículo Integrado em 2000. Várias avaliações desse currículo foram realizadas, mas nenhuma sob o enfoque da competência crítica e reflexiva. OBJETIVO: Analisar a formação crítica e reflexiva no contexto de um currículo integrado. PERCURSO METODOLÓGICO: Realizou-se uma pesquisa qualitativa, cujo método de interpretação foi a hermenêutica-dialética. O estudo foi realizado no Centro de Ciências da Saúde da UEL. O foco foi o Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram os docentes que vivenciam o projeto pedagógico do Currículo Integrado. Nas entrevistas, buscou-se verificar a percepção de docentes sobre o que vem a ser a competência crítica-reflexiva, como desenvolver essa capacidade e o que tem sido realizado no Curso para esse fim. Concomitante às entrevistas foram analisadas as resoluções e deliberações relativas às alterações do projeto pedagógico ocorridas no período de 2000 a 2012 e dois livros publicados sobre o currículo. RESULTADOS: A análise dos documentos revelou que o Currículo Integrado sofreu alterações para possibilitar sua viabilização na prática, tendo em vista condicionantes não sopesadas quando de sua concepção. Ainda assim, os princípios filosóficos e socioculturais conservaram-se inalterados e levam em conta uma reflexividade de cunho sociocrítico e emancipatório. Com base nos referenciais de pensamento crítico e reflexivo de Schön e Freire, identificaram-se duas categorias empíricas oriundas das concepções do pensamento crítico manifestadas pelos professores: uma tradicional-liberal e uma concepção mista, na qual foram identificados elementos relacionados a uma visão sociocritica e emancipatória da competência crítica e reflexiva. As categorias empíricas em relação à prática docente foram: levar estudante a relacionar os conteúdos teóricos à prática; fazer perguntas, aplicar metodologias ativas e usar processos avaliativos. Quanto às fortalezas foram mencionadas: a integração de conteúdos básico-clínico, a manutenção das áreas de conhecimento e as metodologias ativas. As fragilidades foram: o tempo restrito, o contexto do processo de trabalho docente, o despreparo e a falta de intencionalidade do professor e a postura do estudante frente à nova situação de aprendizado. CONCLUSÃO: Conclui-se que o pensamento e a atitude docente em relação a sua própria reflexão-ação e ao que preconiza o Currículo Integrado no que diz respeito ao pensamento crítico e reflexivo precisam ser revisitados a fim de resgatar a proposta pedagógica original. Espera-se que este trabalho possa instrumentalizar as escolas de Enfermagem que tem um Currículo Integrado ou que estão em processo de reformulação curricular. / INTRODUCTION: Curriculum Guidelines for Nursing Courses claim that the structure of the courses must secure a critical, reflective and creative teaching, guided by the action-reflection-action principle. Following national movements, the Nursing course at the State University of Londrina (UEL) made curriculum changes that culminated in the proposition of the Integrated Curriculum in 2000. Several evaluations of this curriculum were made, but none under the approach of critical and reflective competency. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the critical and reflective training in the context of an integrated curriculum. METHODOLOGY: We conducted a qualitative study using the dialectical-hermeneutic interpretation method. The study was conducted at the Center for Health Sciences at UEL. The focus was on the Undergraduate Program in Nursing. The subjects were teachers who experience the pedagogical project of Integrated Curriculum. In the interviews, we sought to verify the perception of teachers about what they consider to be the critical-reflective competence, how to develop this ability and what has been done in the course for this purpose. Concurrent to the interviews, resolutions and deliberations were analyzed concerning the pedagogical changes that occurred in the period from 2000 to 2012 and two books published about the curriculum. RESULTS: The analysis of the documents revealed that the Integrated Curriculum has changed to enable its feasibility in practice in view of constraints not considered when it was designed. Still, the philosophical and sociocultural principles kept unchanged and take into account a socio-critical and emancipatory reflexivity. Based on the benchmarks of Schön and Freires critical and reflective thinking, two empirical categories were identified, derived from conceptions of critical thinking expressed by teachers: a traditional-liberal one and a mixed one, in which elements have been identified related to a socio-critical and emancipatory point of view of the critical and reflective competence. The empirical categories in relation to the teaching practice were: lead student to relate the theoretical contents to the practice, ask questions, apply active methodologies and use evaluation processes. Regarding positive aspects, the following ones were mentioned: the integration of basic and clinical contents, the maintenance of areas of knowledge and active methodologies. Weaknesses were: limited time, the context of the teaching process, the teachers unpreparedness and lack of intentionality and the students attitude towards the new learning situation. CONCLUSION: We concluded that the thought and teaching attitude regarding his/her own reflection-action and advocating the Integrated Curriculum with regard to critical and reflective thinking need to be revisited in order to re-establish the original pedagogical proposition. It is hoped that this work can equip Nursing Schools that have an integrated curriculum or are in the process of curriculum reform.

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Thoughts about reflection and reflective practice have evolved over many decades, through carefully constructed theory and research applications, mainly based on the work of Dewey (1933) and Schön (1983). Evidence also exists in the literature that the ability to reflect on practice is considered a necessity for effective instruction (Sowder, 2007). By reflecting critically teachers become more positive in the search for a new understanding of their teaching practice and design more ways to deal with the challenges that confront them daily. When teachers act reflectively, they consider carefully the problems in their own teaching and think about how those problems are related to their educational or social context. They are aware of the consequences of their teaching and how their own assumptions or beliefs can influence their teaching. This main purpose of my research study was to explore the nature of mathematics teachers’ reflective practice in the context of lesson study. To achieve this aim, an in-depth exploration of five mathematics teachers’ reflection before, during and after teaching a lesson was conducted. The possible relationship between these teachers’ reflection and their classroom practice was also examined. The research also aimed to explore whether and how mathematics teachers’ reflections differ from the conceptualisations of reflection in classroom practice as found in the literature. Contextual factors that might influence the nature of mathematics teachers’ reflective practice were also investigated. My findings indicate that the mathematics teachers in my sample have a limited understanding of the concept of reflection. Furthermore, based on lesson plan analysis, there was no evidence that these teachers reflect-for-action. However, they all reflected on-action verbally and in writing, and three of the five teachers reflected-in-action while teaching. They all reflected on Level R1 (recall level of reflection) and Level R2 (rationalisation level of reflection) and three teachers reflected critically on their learners’ understanding of mathematics and their own teaching of concepts towards the end of the research project (Lee, 2005). Language and the lesson study group experience emerged as contextual factors that seemed to influence the teachers’ reflection. Although the research study’s results cannot be generalised due to the small sample, I believe that through engaging in the lesson study experience the five teachers of this study improved their reflective practice, reporting an increase in self-knowledge and finding new ways of teaching mathematics to learners. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011. / Science, Mathematics and Technology Education / unrestricted

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The purpose of this study is to provide the fields of art education and museum education with gallery teaching practice that uses students’ prior knowledge of art making as the means to guide interpretation of art in the museum. This study develops touring methods that maintain the identity of the student artists in the context of adult artists’ works in the museum. This investigation is an action-based research study of how a museum educator can develop touring practice to use art objects to enable students to think reflectively on their art making. The results of this study identify the characteristics of an art museum tour that is centered on students and art making. This study demonstrates a framework for teaching in the museum that incorporates constructivist learning theory, social and active learning, a concepts-based approach to art learning, and develops student cognition. / text