Donald Schon’s (1992) work on reflective practice was influenced by Dewey and highlighted how professionals can use reflection to build professional knowledge and expertise. Schon …show more content…
Blogs written by administrators about events that happen in their day can help school leaders reflect on their decisions and their repercussions. “Reflective practice can be seen and has been recognized in many teaching and learning scenarios, and the emergence in more recent years of blogging has been seen as another form of reflection on experience in a technological age” (Wopereis, Sloep, & Poortman, 2010). In 1978, Louise Rosenblatt published The Reader, The Text, The Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work, in which she explored the unique transaction between the reader and the text. Rosenblatt said, “No one else, no matter how much more competent, more informed, nearer the ideal (whatever that might be), can read the poem or the story for us” (1978, p. 141). Her work emphasized the unique relationship a reader has with his/her text.
The electric current of his mind and personality lighting up the pattern of symbols on the printed page. Or perhaps we should say that the symbols take meaning from the intellectual and emotional context the reader provides. The current of his thoughts and feelings has for the time of his reading been channeled by the printed symbols. The result has been a more or less organized imaginative experience, and the word, “story,’’ or the word, “poem,’’ points towards this segment of the reader’s experience. (Rosenblatt, 2005, p.