Reflective practices

Reflection supports the iterative and thoughtful nature of our work as educators and innovators. Below you will find more information on how reflective practices play a crucial role in the implementation of Principled Innovation.
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Borstel, J. (2005). Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: An aesthetic of inquiry, an ethos of dialogue. In Dialogue in artistic practice: Case studies from animating democracy (pp. 57-91). Americans for the Arts.

Cook-Sather, A., & Baker-Doyle, K. J. (2017). Developing teachers’ capacity for moral reasoning and imagination in teacher education. In D. J. Clandinin and J. Husu (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of research on teacher education (Vol. 2, pp. 354–368). SAGE Reference. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118785317.weom020036

Gray, D. E. (2007). Facilitating management learning: Developing critical reflection through reflective tools. Management Learning, 38(5), 495–517. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507607083204

Lamb, M., Brant, J., & Brooks, E. (2021). How is virtue cultivated? Seven strategies for postgraduate character development. Journal of Character Education, 17(1).

Lerman, L. (2011). Hiking the horizontal: Field notes from a choreographer. Wesleyan University Press.

Lerman, L. (2015). Atlas of Creative Tools: Report and prospectus for the sharing and perpetuation of arts-based tools on a digital platform. [Unpublished report]. Imaging Research Center, UMBC.

Lerman, L. (2018). Dramaturgy as litany. In R. Bowditch, J. Casazza & A. Thornton. (Eds.), Physical dramaturgy: Perspectives from the field (pp. 73-78). Routledge.

Mezirow, J. (1990). How critical reflection triggers transformative learning. In Fostering critical reflection in adulthood: A guide to transformative and emancipatory learning (pp. 1–20). Jossey-Bass Publishers. https://www.colorado.edu/plc/sites/default/files/attached-files/how_critical_reflection_triggers_transfo.pdf

Mezirow, J. (1997). Transformative learning: Theory to practice. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1997(74), 5–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/ace.7401

Mezirow, J. (1998). On critical reflection. Adult Education Quarterly, 48(3), 185. https://doi.org/10.1177/074171369804800305

Nock, M. (2023). Insights into the Atlas of Creative Tools and how it moves sustainability science toward cognitive justice, or, an interrogation of the traditional dissertation [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Arizona State University.

Schön, D. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Arena.

Sharma, S., Phillion, J., & Malewski, E. (2011). Examining the practice of critical reflection for developing pre-service teachers’ multicultural competencies: Findings from a study abroad program in Honduras. Issues in Teacher Education, 20(2), 9–22. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ954551

Van Beveren, L., Roets, G., Buysse, A., & Rutten, K. (2018). We all reflect, but why? A systematic review of the purposes of reflection in higher education in social and behavioral sciences. Educational Research Review, 24, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2018.01.002