Developing a framework for pre-service teacher reflective practice

Six academics from the Department of Education at Macquarie University were interviewed to determine how they incorporated reflective practice into their methodology units. The interview data were summarised in a model to describe the processes of reflective thinking in teacher education. Further refining of the model led to the development of a Reflective Practice Framework which describes four hierarchical stages of reflection: Describing, Evaluating, Reflecting, Imagining. This paper describes the evolution of the framework and outlines its stages.