Rud 17: Reflective Practice Mark 3

To be honest using reflective practice in my library experience is difficult. It doesn't have a scheduled part in the day and for the various projects I've been involved in at work, reflective practice hasn't featured. For any project we give recommendations for the next iteration of the committee or we give a summary of what the project staff did to ensure that the project was completed. As far as I know no one on a project has reflected on what we did, why we did and how we would change it.

Cork Harbour

Occasionally we'll do courses at work so that we'll bond as a group (I always think that superglue would do a faster job) and part of that is reflecting on what has led us to that point and how we'll deal with it. However this reflection only lasts for as long as the course is running and while we may implement other suggestions from the course reflective practice is one that is forgotten, and very easily too.

Perhaps I do reflective practice a disservice, perhaps others are engaging in it anyway and just not talking about it. After all reflective practice is a personal activity at the start. It's only when it becomes a 'problem' in the Randy Bass sense of the word that people start to share on the matter.