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Individual Reflection

Schon (1983) devoted an entire book to concepts he named reflective thinking, reflection-in-action, and reflective practice; this after an

entire book was written a decade earlier with Argyris (Argyris & Schon, 1978) to introduce the concepts. Therefore, a concise definition

of this researcher’s understanding of individual reflection that did justice to something that most aptly had been identified as an intuitive

act was difficult to reach. However, the most salient characteristics of individual reflection for the purposes of this study were these three:

(a) an “artistry of practice” (Schon, 1983), (b) how one practices overtly what one knows intuitively, and (c) how a professional enhances

practice through thoughtful discourse within the mind.

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