Reflective Practice: A critical perspective on the complexities of transfer

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Reflective Practice: A critical perspective on the complexities of transfer

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The following article is my reflection on reflective writing and reflective practices. According to
my understanding about reflection, a reflective writing involves understanding of the past or
ongoing experiences which helps us to forecast our future decisions or actions (Griggs, Rae,
Lawless and Holden, 2013). I also understood about critical reflection which engages critically
reflect our reviews on a particular topic or person. In an organization, critical reflection can be
challenging for both working professionals and the management. I could understand that
organizations in future will be able to benefit from reflective practices for the professional
development of employees. But I also identified that reflective learning cannot be understood by
many. Reflective learning can be applied to different fields of work like social work and nursing.
I came across the concept of reflective practitioner who applies an approach for the transfer of
the learning to the workplace. Transfer of learning depends upon the factors that helps the
reflective practitioner to impart his knowledge to the employees. According to Liu (2018), when
employees are motivated, and have the ability to grasp the knowledge, they are going to
understand the matter clearly. As I understood, the approach of learning from our own selves is a
good character of reflective practice. This allows an individual to understand themselves and
critiquing themselves first and then create a perception about others. Though, there can be
differences in reflective practice and reflective writing. According to a tutor's point of view,
applying the framework of reflective writing can be helpful to develop reflective learning in
students. From the student's point of view, I understood that majority of the professionals were
unable to define about reflective practice. Therefore, in the report it was concluded that reflective
practice techniques can be beneficial to develop the HR responsibilities.
Apart from that, as identified by Knott and Scragg (2016), measuring reflective practice is also
important. My reflection on this is that reflective practice can be challenging for some
organizations but if understand properly, it will be helpful to assess the performance of the
students. I identified that the next step in reflective practice is constructing and measuring the
characteristics of the trainee understanding about reflective learning. I understood about career
progression in HR and how the characteristics of a Trainee leads him into this career. In this
report, majority of the students working as professionals in many companies have not considered
reflective learning (Griggs, Rae, Lawless and Holden, 2013). Moreover, they valued on skill
development. Although many organizations have embedded reflective learning in their courses. I
was able to identify the Gibbs model of reflection mentioned in this article.