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Reflection Through Collaborative Action Research and Inquiry

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This chapter examines the nature of reflection through the lens of collaborative inquiry. Important features of reflection that emerge through this review include explicit examples of framing and reframing and how that has led to alternative perspectives on situations. The notion of a critical friend also stands out through examples in which it has been employed to challenge understandings of situations rather than reinforce or rationalize existing positions.

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       Interestingly, a similar pathway exists in the literature that emanates from the East that goes from Vygotsky (1983, original 1931 but first published in 1960) to Leontyev (1983, first published in 1944) and Davydov (1972) and finishes with work by Lefebvre (2003, first published in 1967) who like Schön considered the importance of seeing things from different perspectives.

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Loughran, J. (2010). Reflection Through Collaborative Action Research and Inquiry. In: Lyons, N. (eds) Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85744-2_20

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