Critical Reflection Essay

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Introduction This essay is a critical reflection on my working with a number of colleagues to complete an experimental project. Wertenbroch & Nabeth (2000) define critical reflection as “the process of analysing, reconsidering and questioning experiences within a broad context of issues (e.g., issues related to social justice, curriculum development, learning theories, politics, culture, or use of technology).” Reflection is an important form of learning and has a great effect on acquiring knowledge about a person and the world around them. It plays an essential part of any learning experience, whether you are a high school student, university student or an employee in a company. Engaging in experiences allows a person to utilise his/her senses and to interact with a topic matter. Dewey (1933) is considered by a number of philosophers as the contemporary inventor of reflection, due to the fact that his ideas stem from famous philosophers including Confucius, Plato and Aristotle. Beside interaction, Dewey (1933) explains that reflection enables a person to connect a recent experience with an interrelated mental experience that in turn permits the development of ‘higher order thinking’. Learning does not occur just by experiences but also by reflecting on the experiences, appreciating and understanding them. This essay attempts to critical reflect on my experiences of being a part of a team. In this essay I will describe the objectives of the team and my own objectives. The team was formed to complete two objectives, 1) to propose a psychology experiment and 2) to carry out that experiment (see appendix 1). The team proposed to carry out research in the field of cognitive psychology; this was mainly because the team found the topic interesting and because one of our team members (member B) had a good amount of knowledge on the topic at hand. The project’s

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