Reflective practice is the structured process of deliberate reflection on experience to extract lessons, identify patterns, and improve future performance. Its parameters are: (1) a prior experience or action that can be reflected upon, (2) deliberate and structured reflection — not casual thinking but systematic examination, (3) extraction of lessons or insights from the reflection, and (4) application of those insights to future action. The persistence mechanism is teaching, documentation, and habit formation — it is institutionalized in professional development programs, journals, and debrief protocols. [formal: reflectio | substrate: behavior | horizon: hours | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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reflective-practice
Reflective practice is the structured process of deliberate reflection on experience to extract lessons, identify patterns, and improve future performance. Its parameters are: (1) a prior experience or action that can be reflected upon, (2…
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Why it is in scope
The human-made concept of deliberately reflecting on experiences, actions, or decisions to extract lessons and improve future performance. It is a construct in educational theory and professional development — not the natural act of reflection, but the structured, systematic practice of deliberate self-examination.
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- reflective-practiceen · CANONICAL
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Removal test (Law 8): remove memory and reflective-practice stops operating — you cannot reflect on past experience without memory to retain it. The dependency is immediate and necessary, not just associated.
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Removal test (Law 8): remove metacognition — does reflective-practice stop OPERATING? Yes. Reflective-practice is the practice of examining one's own actions and assumptions, which requires the capacity for metacognition (awareness and monitoring of one's own cognitive processes). Without that capacity, the practice cannot function. Object-level dependency, not meta-level: metacognition is a specific capacity, not generic cognition (Law 2b).
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