How does adult learning relate to reflective practice

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How does adult learning relate to reflective
practice?
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Some key principles of adult learning

• Acknowledge and value prior experience
• Learner-teacher partnership
• Partnership with peers
• Learning from real life problems
• A safe-enough base

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Stages of learning

• Reynolds
• Acute self consciousness
• Trial and error
• Theory without practice
• Competent practice

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• Honey and Mumford
• Activists
• Pragmatists
• Reflectors
• Theorists

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Kolbs learning circle

• Concrete experience
• 
  an actual event
• What happened?
• active
  reflecting about
  the experience
• experimentation
  - making
  sense of it
• trying it out
  through
  own experiences,
• in practice
  thoughts
  feelings
• What do we do?
  What was it
  like?
  
  
• abstract conceptualisation
• linking the experience
  to other experiences
• analysing it creating
  a possible meaning for it
• What does
  this mean?
  
  

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Its like learning to drive a car

• Unconscious incompetence
• Conscious incompetence
• Conscious competence
• Unconscious competence

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Processes of learning

• Academic learning
• Observing others
• Having a go
• Reflection on action
• Reflection in action
• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

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Theories of learning

• Structures of meaning and assumptive worlds
• Whats gone before affects the present and future
• Relationship with PT
• Academic ability
• Level of self awareness

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• Using general principles in interventions
  requires thought
• Look for what is
• familiar in the unique and
• unique in the familiar (what bucks the trend)
• Theory, research and practice wisdom should not
  be a smokescreen for pre-conceptions but fertile
  ground for exploring all the avenues