Bridging Theory and Practice: Reflective Learning in Higher Education

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Author(s): Eva Cendon (Deutsche Universität für Weiterbildung, Germany)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value Management in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Walter Nuninger (Université de Lille, France)and Jean-Marie Châtelet (Université de Lille, France)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0024-7.ch012

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Education / Educational Administration and Leadership / Higher Education

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This chapter focuses on reflective learning in higher education as central point of reference in answering to the social demands and the ongoing changes in modern societies. Empirical basis is a two and a half year study with a group of students in different master's programs at a University for Professional Studies and interviews with teachers who are teaching in master's programs of professional studies. The chapter presents a concept of reflective learning that values the students' practice and expertise as professionals and provides ways to further develop and transform this practice into new contexts. Hence, the productive linkage between academic ways of knowing and professional ways of knowing and the development of students as reflective practitioners are central elements.

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