I have five days in which to finalise three chapters of my doctoral thesis - and to create a first draft of the key analytical section of the piece. The work takes a critical look at the way in which reflective practice has established itself discursively. It has acheived this with little reference to the relative merits and demerits of the activity, scant regard to the limited evidence base that supports this type of formal reflection, and no sense of what is of use (in terms of ideas and techniques) in terms of reflective practice and what is not.
As a practitioner who puts reflective technique at the foundation of each learning intervention that I build, I would not want people to think that I am critical of reflection per se; instead, I am eager to explore the discourse of Reflective Practice, wherein healthcare professionals are compelled to engage in this type of activity so that the positive aspects of reflection - as a key component of thoughtful and professional practice.
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