ORIGINAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICE LAB

Reflective Practice Lab: 2020 - 2022

The foundation for the Institute for Reflective Practice is the Reflective Practice Lab, which was active from 2020-2022. Foundational scholarship and writing guides were produced in the lab that provide key frameworks for the institute. Note: The Reflective Practice Lab is now closed. If you are interested in reflective practice, take a look at the Institute for Reflective Practice and join one of our initiatives: mentoring, research, or professional development. We would love to have you join us!

Overview of the Reflective Practice Lab

The Reflective Practice Lab was founded in 2020 by Scott W. Greenberger. The purpose of the lab was to utilize and reconstruct John Dewey’s seminal work on reflective thinking to develop ancillary materials to support the Guide for Reflective Practice. 

Mission Statement of the Reflective Practice Lab

Reflective practice helps us improve self-awareness and enables us to recognize our knowledge, competencies, and behavior. At the Reflective Practice Lab, we believe that individuals who incorporate reflective practices into their personal and professional lives can begin to reconstruct their understanding and skills in light of new experiences they encounter. Our goal is to demonstrate the benefits of reflective practice and give people the tools to incorporate and experience thinking behavior.  

Members

• Scott W. Greenberger, EdD – Founder, (2020 – 2022)
• Tara E. Chavez, EdD – Lab Manager, (2020 – 2022)
• Cheryl L. Martin, EdD – Associate Member, (2020 – 2022)
• Kelly R. Maguire, EdD – Associate Member, (2020 – 2022)
• Amy M. Anderson, EdD – Associate Member, (2021 – 2022)
• Justina Or, PhD – Associate Member, (2021 – 2022)
• Gina Delgado, EdD – Associate Member, (2020 – 2021)

Publications

Anderson, A. M., Or, J. M. L., Maguire, K. R., Greenberger, S. W., Martin, C. L., & Chavez, T. E. (2022, in peer-review). Refugee simulations: Transformative learning to improve character. Community College Journal of Research and Practice.

Anderson, A. M., Or, J. M. L., Greenberger, S. W., Maguire, K. R., Martin, C. L., & Chavez, T. E. (2023). Reflective readiness: Character strengths for effective reflection on refugee simulations. Reflective Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2023.2183189

Greenberger, S. W., & Or, J. (2022). Cultivating faculty readiness to reflect: Reconstructing Dewey’s attitudes for reflection as character strengths. Reflective Practice, 23(3), 291-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2021.2015685

Greenberger, S. W., Maguire, K. R., Martin, C. L., Chavez, T. E., & Delgado, G. (2021). Discovering reflective-narrative: Constructing experience in the Deweyan guide for reflective practice. Reflective Practice, 23(2), 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2021.1983423

Workshops 

Greenberger, S. W., Maguire, K. R., & Murphy, C. (2022, May 26). Reflective writing retreat. [virtual workshop]. Institutional Research and College of Arts and Media at Grand Canyon University.

Greenberger, S. W., Chavez, T. E., Anderson, A. M., Maguire, K. R., Martin, C. L., and Or, J. M. L. (2022, April). Reflective writing retreat. [virtual workshop]. EdD Pathway. 

Greenberger, S. W., Martin, C. L., Anderson, A. M., Chavez, T. E., Maguire, K. R., Or, J. M. L., and Fields, G. (2022, March). Reflective writing for individual development plans. [virtual workshop]. Chandler Gilbert Community College.

Greenberger, S. W., Delgado, G., Chavez, T. E., Maguire, K. R., and Martin, C. L. (2021, April). Reflective writing retreat. [virtual workshop]. Arizona State University.

Greenberger, S. W., Delgado, G., Chavez, T. E., Maguire, K. R., and Martin, C. L. (2021, March). Info session. Reflective writing. [virtual workshop]. Arizona State University.

Presentations 

Anderson, A. M., Maguire, K. R., Martin, C. L., & Or, J. M. L. (2023, February). Transforming character of community college students through refugee simulations. [Paper presentation]. Western States Communication Association. Phoenix, AZ

Anderson, A. M. (2022, November). Refugee simulations to improve cultural fluency in educational contexts. [Conference presentation]. National Communication Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. 

Maguire, K. R. & Anderson, A. M. (2022, June 4). Effective teaching: Reinvigorating the higher education classroom. [Conference presentation]. The Teaching Professor Conference, Atlanta, GA

Anderson, A. M., & Maguire, K. R., (2022, February 11). Refugee simulations as experiential learning opportunities to improve empathy. [Conference presentation]. 2022 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, Virginia Tech. 

Greenberger, S. W., Maguire, K. R., & Martin, C. L. (2021, October 8 – 9). Description as reflective-narrative: Constructing experience in the guide for reflective practice. [Conference presentation]. John Dewey Memorial Conference, Burlington, VT.

Greenberger, S. W., & Or, J. (2021, July 15). Cultivating character strengths to foster faculty reflective practice ePoster. [Virtual presentation]. 7th International Positive Psychology Association World Congress.