Schön’s Reflective Model

The term Schön’s reflective model was invented by Donald Schön. This is a particular style of reflection in two different approached which actually both lead to the other forming a cycle (as shown in the diagram). The reflection is to be ‘in-action’ and ‘on-action’. 

Reflection on-action is when you reflect on what had happened and what could have been done better. Reflection in-action is when you reflect in the present, during the action, when you act quickly on something that is happening. 

The Schön’s reflective model is normally used by everyone unintentionally when writing about something that had happened and you’d reflect on what you could have done and what would you do the next time during a particular action (Solent Online Learning, n.d.).

In the following text I will be putting the Schön’s reflective model into practice.

Questionnaires

As part of an assignment, we need to work in a group of three with the aim to finally design the Art Studio 1, and currently we’re doing research methods. In order to do this we had to plan ahead when we’ll be doing what, and this week we had to conduct questionnaires, which we had already drafted previously. The questionnaires are aimed to collect different views and perspectives of students and lecturers, who use Art Studio 1. Me and my team member started to hand these questionnaires to students who were using the space during their lecture in charge to fill them out. A particular class, were struggling to fill the form as they didn’t understand few questions and they started to fill them out quickly to get them done.

So after this we realized that the questionnaires could have been structured better. The questions should have been more focused in multiple choice, as we included some open ended questions and sometimes, the answers were being written in short or left empty.

There was also a question where we included four images of different classroom interiors and the question being asked was to make a choice of the image they’d prefer, taking into consideration the lighting and colours only demonstrated in the images. Few participants where choosing a particular image just because they like the room setting and not the lighting and colour. The problem was that the question was being misunderstood and that the question wasn’t straight to the point and it might have been too long to read for a questionnaire.

So reflecting on this particular event, I think I would be structuring a better questionnaire by making it shorter, straighter to the point and simpler. This would put the participant at ease as they’d fill it out in more precise and quicker way.

Reference:

Anon, n.d. Reflective thinking and writing [online] Solent Online Learning. Available at: http://learn.solent.ac.uk/mod/book/view.php?id=2732&chapterid=1113 [Accessed 21 January 2017].