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Utilising reflective practice interviews in professional development

Geoff Chivers (Centre for Hazard and Risk Management, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK)

Journal of European Industrial Training

ISSN: 0309-0590

Article publication date: 1 February 2003

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Abstract

There is much agreement in the literature that reflection on practice is critically important for the full development and ongoing learning of professionals. The methods of reflection on professional practice reported to date have been developed primarily in the context of professional education in group settings led by a tutor. Research is underway into ways in which managers can be developed as learning facilitators in the workplace. However, there are increasing limitations on the significance of this approach to the continuing development of professionals. The research reported here shows that in‐depth research interviews with professionals to investigate their work and learning can play an important part in supporting their reflection in‐depth on their practice. An analysis of the processes involved, and the characteristics of the three research interviewers involved, indicates that human resource development professionals could be trained for the role of learning facilitators of professionals through 1:1 discourse in the form of in‐depth interviews.

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Chivers, G. (2003), "Utilising reflective practice interviews in professional development", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 5-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090590310456483

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