Second Task

What is reflective Thinking?

According to Jhon Dewey (1910), there are many modes of thinking such as belief, imagination, streams of consciousness and reflection. The author emphasizes on what is reflective thinking.

Reflection requires that the thinker draw on the past experience, then the thinker will analyze the experience that will be interpreted according to their culture, own preferences, desires or beliefs in a short or long period of time, it depends if the thinker is a novice reflective teacher or is an expert reflective teacher. After that, the thinker could identify a problem or a question based on the past experience analyzed. In that order, they can start to give some explanation to the problem or the question, to propose solutions to later on take actions.