About Teachers as Reflective Practioners
This course is intended to equip trainees with the theory and practice of reflective thinking as applied to the teaching-learning process. Where reflection, as strategy, can be a cross-cutting issue, this course particularly gives the candidates the opportunity to examine the educational theories behind the application of reflective thinking and action to teaching and to exercise it during the block of time allotted to the course. Among the core contents of the course are the meaning and nature of reflection (reflective thinking, reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action); reflective thinking/action versus technical rationality; traditional of reflective practices; levels of reflective practice; reflective teaching; the reflective teacher and strategies of reflective teaching in secondary schools. Action research, as one of the tools of reflection, will be one major part of the course.