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Reflection and Reflective Inquiry: Critical Issues, Evolving Conceptualizations, Contemporary Claims and Future Possibilities

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This Handbook brings together critical issues, current theory, research, and contemporary, state of the art practices of an important body of knowledge, reflective practice. The book argues that the habits of mind essential for reflection, especially reflective inquiry, are crucially tied to what Maxine Greene calls the challenge of being “wide awake.” Today, reflection is being re-imagined as a necessity for the viability of professional education and learning. But why? And why now? For example, medical doctor, Atul Gawande, sees as one requirement for successful medical practice today what he calls ingenuity, that is, “thinking anew.” He argues, “It is not a matter of superior intelligence but of character. It arises from deliberative, even obsessive, reflection on failure and a constant searching for new solutions” (Gawande 2007, p. 9).

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Lyons, N. (2010). Reflection and Reflective Inquiry: Critical Issues, Evolving Conceptualizations, Contemporary Claims and Future Possibilities. In: Lyons, N. (eds) Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85744-2_1

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