Reflection and the College Teacher. A Solution for Higher Education 12+

📗 A volume in Innovative Perspectives of Higher Education: Research, Theory and PracticeSeries Editor Kathleen P. King, University of South FloridaHigher education is facing many challenges, not least of which is retaining excellent faculty andcultivating their continued professional growth. This book explicitly ties the literature to thepractical concerns and recommendations related to applying the reflective process in a collegesetting. In this way, the theories and empirical findings of the most recent literatures are linked topractical recommendations. The reflective tools described in this book provide an importantresource for facultys' reflective practice. Unlike other books on the topic, the model developed andpresented in this book allows for the reflective process to validate faculty's previous actions oraccomplishments and maintain these practices. In other words, the endpoint of reflective processsupports self-satisfaction. Instead of a deficit model, the focus is development.In this comprehensive volume, readers discover the seminal and the recent research in reflective practice drawn from a wide range ofsources, including the authors' recent research findings on college teachers' reflection.Altogether, Wlodarsky and Walters systematically address these critical questions:a. What is reflection?b. Of what practical use or benefit does reflection serve?c. How do college teachers model reflection in the workplace?d. What are the steps in the reflective ...