Teachers as Reflective Practitioners: From Individualism to Vygotskian Social Constructivism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper presents a critical review of major works on reflective practice in teaching that mainly define reflection as a technical and isolated process, taking place in an individual’s mind. Critiquing the cognitive nature of reflective practice promoted in mainstream research, the paper directs attention to the increasing recognition of sociocultural factors in teacher professional learning, and highlights the significance of reflection as a social practice. Starting with the ideas of John Dewey on reflective practice for teachers, the paper delineates Schön’s successive works on the subject, followed by a discussion of Wallace’s reflective model. The final part of the paper describes how Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory provides a theoretical framework for teachers to effectively engage in reflective practice by moving from individualism to social constructivism in their efforts to enhance their professional competence. Keywords: reflection; reflective practitioner; teacher professional learning; Vygotsky; social constructivism L'article présente un examen critique des principaux travaux sur la pratique réflexive dans l'enseignement qui définissent principalement la réflexion comme un processus technique et isolé, se déroulant dans l'esprit d'un individu. Critiquant la nature cognitive de la pratique réflexive promue par la recherche dominante, l'article attire l'attention sur la reconnaissance croissante des facteurs socioculturels dans l'apprentissage professionnel des enseignants et souligne l'importance de la réflexion en tant que pratique sociale. Partant des idées de John Dewey sur la pratique réflexive pour les enseignants, l'article décrit les travaux successifs de Schön sur le sujet, pour ensuite discuter du modèle réflexif de Wallace. La dernière partie de l'article décrit la mesure dans laquelle la théorie socioculturelle de Vygotsky fournit un cadre théorique permettant aux enseignants de s'engager efficacement dans une pratique réflexive en passant de l'individualisme au constructivisme social dans leurs efforts pour améliorer leur compétence professionnelle. Mots clés : réflexion ; praticien réfléchi ; apprentissage professionnel des enseignants ; Vygotsky ; constructivisme social
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.040 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.031 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".