What are the key components of reflective practice and how can it be used to enhance work with children and young people?

What are the key components of reflective practice and how can it be used to enhance work with children and young people?
The assignment should demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the role of critical reflection in transforming practice. Key sources Reader Chapter 18; infed website; online resouces; DVD 1. Guidance Although there are a number of points in the module where reflective practice is discussed and illustrated, your starting point for this question should be Unit 9: Reflective practice. In that unit, you explored a range of resources that will provide rich material for tackling this option. The chapter by Val Gillies and Yvonne Robinson in the Reader presents an ethnographic acount of conducting research with pupils at risk of school exclusion. In this chapter they model the importance of a reflexive engagement and responsible ethical practice, specifically in relation to research, but their approach is of relevance to other kinds of work involving children and young people. The development activity for Unit 9 provided links to a range of theoretical models of reflective pratice (in the works of Schon, Polyanyi and Argyris) via the infed website, and you need to demonstrate an understanding of some or all of these in your answer. The audiovisual activity for the unit invited you to review highlights of the film and interviews on DVD 1, focusing on the model of reflective practice followed by Mary Robson and her colleagues at the Roots and Wings project. Finally, Development Activity 9.3 included links to a number of websites which may contain relevant material to support your answer. Notice that the question has two parts. For the first part, you should make use of the resources mentioned above to clearly set out the core elements of reflective practice as you see it, ideally illustrated with practical examples. For the second part, you need to show, again using examples from either the module or your own experience, how reflective practice can lead to improvements in practice with children and young people.