This paper traces the development over several years of an initiative involving student journals that was introduced into a tertiary science education course for pre-service teachers to promote enhanced learning of how to teach science. Very soon after introducing the journals into course work the lecturer began engaging in ‘unplanned’ informal reflection (reflection-in-action and reflection-on...

This article discusses the training of communicative skills by fostering the reflection of speech-receptive action and the opportunities for using software for this purpose. Most frameworks for the training of communicative behavior focus on fostering the observable speech-productive action (i.e. speaking); the individual cognitive processes underlying speech-receptive action (hearing and under...

In this paper, we present Schön’s approach to design, as we have described it in The Cognitive Artifacts of Designing (2006). Schön is (if one excepts the design theorist Rittel) the first author after Simon to introduce a new approach to cognitive design theory. Schön formulated his view on design in terms of “reflective activity” and related notions, especially “reflective practice”, “reflect...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the application action research methodology in compulsory course titled “Choreology with emphasis on Greek traditional dance” School Physical Education and Sport Science National Kapodistrian University Athens, based experiences self-reflection researcher himself, concerning data collected from participants research. For that purpose, ethnographic was conduc...