Seonglae ChoLooking the past and future events at the same time without isolation.
Reflective writing
- Descriptive (minimal) - What When Who Where - Looking back
- Reflective (maximum) - Why How So what - Analyzing & Projection
Hindsight (Retrospective, Regret)
Insight from behind events
Your feelings and emotions are very strong right after the event, but you can reflective more objectively after a bit time later. Reflecting later could enable considering several aspects such as cause emotion changes with critical tone stepping back.
Critical reflection (objectively)
- making connections between events and ideas
- refining and reformulating ideas
Framework Models for reflective writing
- Experience → Observation → Conceptualization → Experimentation → … (Kolb, 1984)
- Descriptive → Feeling → Evaluation → Analysis → Conclusion → Plan → (Gibbs, 1988)
- What → So what? → Now what? → What → … (Rolfe, 2001)
- Reporting → Relating → Reasoning → Restructuring (Ryan, 2013)
We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience. - John Dewey