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| Author(s): | C.Johns |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISBN: | 9781405185677 |
| Format: | softback |
| 344pp | |
| Price: | £24.99 |
| Review Date: | 27 August 2009 |
| Review: | The aim of this book, as in the last two editions, is to reply to the question ‘What does it mean to be a reflective practitioner?’ The book has been entirely revised but some of the second edition remains. The book is in three parts. In the first part the author sets out some ideas of reflection, with various ideas informed by influences from cognitive approaches. He sets out a reflective model for clinical practice, based on the Burford NDU model. He also describes the ‘being available’ template and how to set out an environment where being available is possible. The second part of the book gives four narratives, by four different authors, on ‘being available. The last part discusses how to create a reflective environment — reflective communication, ensuring quality, transformational leadership, clinical supervision and nurturing the learning organisation, reflection as chaos theory, the reflective curriculum, and the performance turn. |