Reflexive and Reflective Thinking Practices: What’s the Difference?
I have always found the idea of reflexive thinking a slippery concept to pin down.
I am unsure if it is because reflection is relatively straightforward and familiar to me, but I often have to reconnect with the meaning of reflexive thinking.
In this article, we look at reflection vs reflexive thinking practices, so you can start using them more effectively.
What is reflection, and what is reflexive thinking?
Reflection focuses on your thoughts, feelings, and actions. It involves looking back on your teaching practice and examining what you did well, where you might improve. It’s an introspective process, too, in which you look inward-it’s about thinking “on” yourself.
On the other hand, reflexive thinking is a way of being in the world that involves noticing patterns in your experience. You look at patterns and influences that affect your actions as a whole-it’s about noticing how you change and grow.
One of the ways that have helped me to think about it is that reflexivity is about folding back onto or…
