HomePublicationsOpen Access SeriesWriting about Learning and Teaching in Higher EducationPart 4 Chapter 18: Revealing the Process: Reflective EssaysDownload Chapter Book MenuWriting about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education SectionsPart 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6ChaptersChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23Chapter 24Chapter 25Chapter 26Chapter 27Chapter 28Chapter 29Chapter 30About the Authors Book Resources Book Reviews Download BookOpen access PDFdoi.org/10.36284/celelon.oa3ISBN: 978-1-951414-04-7September 20202.6 MBMetrics: 22738 views | 8753 downloadsISBN: 978-1-951414-05-4September 2020 (Temporarily Unavailable) Chapter 18 discusses how reflective essays invite authors to share the messy, unfinished, personal work of learning and teaching—the lived experience and the sense people make of it that rarely find a place in other forms of scholarship. This chapter offers a flexible guide to the organization and composition of reflective essays along with a discussion of the benefits and complexities of writing them. Related Book ResourcesGuiding Questions for Planning, Revising, and Refining a Reflective Essay: [PDF] [DOCX] Discussion Questions What experience of learning or teaching might you examine for how it has informed your own thinking or practice? What aspects of your experience of learning or teaching might best be conveyed through first-person, informal narrative and analysis? How can you engage in, as well as model, learning through writing in this genre? Share:
