Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development

In this fully updated and revised second edition, Gillie Bolton draws on her considerable experience and extensive research to demonstrate a creative, dynamic mode of reflection and reflexivity. Using expressive and explorative writing combined with in-depth group work or mentoring and appropriate focused research, it enables sensitive and critical examinations of practice.

The book offers a searching and thorough approach which increases student and professional motivation, satisfaction, and deep levels of learning. It clearly explains the use of reflection, reflexivity, narrative, metaphor, complexity, and the literary and artistic methods employed are firmly grounded n educational theory and pedagogical principles.

These methods are appropriate to, and used worldwide by, pre- and post-experience professionals in in-service and Higher Education, in medicine, education, clinical psychology, nursing therapy, counseling, leadership, life coaching, business management and HR development.