Practice Principle 8: Reflective Practice

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Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework Evidence Paper Practice Principle 8: Reflective Practice Authored for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development by Louise Marbina, Amelia Church & Collette Tayler 2 Practice Principle 8: Reflective Practice Executive What is Reflective Practice ?....................................... ........................................ ........................................ 7 Why is Reflective Practice so important in early childhood le arning, development and teaching?.

Concerning Human Understanding” (Locke, 1690) helped to lay the philosophical foundations of our subsequent understanding of reflective practice as a crucial way of learning. Dewey’s (1933) distinction between “routine action” (action driven by habit and routine) and

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