Abstract
M.Ed.
What the researcher will hope to discover during the
research project is the importance of being a reflective
teacher.
The purpose of this research project is to investigate reflective
teaching as an aspect of teacher competence. Through the
literature survey the researcher hopes to derive a clearer
meaning of the term reflective teaching.
The central concept which will guide the researcher in his
literature survey will be reflective teaching. At this stage in
the research project the central concept would be defined as the
ability of the teacher to critically analyze his own work which
brings about a process of self awareness, self critique, social
and institutional critique. Reflective teaching could be viewed
from three dimensions.
THE TECHNICAL DIMENSION:
The efficiency and effectiveness of the means to attain ends.
THE PRACTICAL DIMENSION:
This is the teaching activity accessing the adequacy of
educational goals.
CRITICAL DIMENSION:
Questioning which educational goals, why are you doing this ?
What do we hope to achieve ?
It should be understood that this definition is not rigid and
set, but rather it is tentative and evolving throughout the
study, which will be based on information gathered in our
literature review. The researcher will, also seek to understand why it is
important to be a reflective teacher.
The researcher will also seek to explore the circumstances
which leads one to be a reflective teacher.
Eventually the researcher will try to describe the
experiences of being a reflective teacher.