10.+Reflection

=Reflection=

Throughout the research part of this project, reflective practice has been conducted using a blog that I had previously set up for another, similar subject. This blog was again utilised in this subject. The purpose of reflection in this case was to examine my own experiences in conjunction with what I was reading and to attempt to apply theories and frameworks to these experiences. I found the most effective way to reflect on my own experiences was to summarise them and then critique them by way of making them into a case study. The blog post for this can be found here, or it can also be read on the wiki as Case Study 5.

Though I started the project by reflecting on the initial papers that I read, this process became too time consuming and took my focus away from constructing coherent arguments and forming a structure for the project. I discovered that writing the project itself was its own form of reflection, and thus the blog was less utilised and less useful than I first expected it would be when I wrote the learning contract which would structure this project. That said, I am still an avid supporter of blogging and have still tried to incorporate blogging into the project as much as possible. The blog can be found here.