OVERVIEW OF THE INSTITUTE FOR REFLECTIVE PRACTICE

The mission of the Institute for Reflective Practice is to mentor practitioners to engage experience as reflective scholars, develop practitioners to become community engaged scholars, and prepare practitioners to analyze problems as interdisciplinary and integrative scholars. Our target audience is practitioners from any industry, but we have a special focus on academics, specifically, faculty, staff, and students in higher education. If you are interested in joining the institute, please see information on OUR MEMBERSHIP PAGE.

There are three distinct activities in which members of the institute engage:

• Mentoring: Mentoring interested participants and stakeholders in the fundamentals of reflective practice, community engagement, and interdisciplinary inquiry.
• Scholarship: Active involvement in the development of writing guides; exploring the theoretical foundations for reflective practice, community engagement, and interdisciplinary inquiry; and conducting empirical inquiry.
• Professional Development: Facilitating reflective writing retreats for colleges and universities, private corporations, and governmental agencies to enhance their understanding of reflective practice, community engagement, and interdisciplinary inquiry.

FOUNDATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP

Publications

Anderson, A. M., Or, J. M. L., Maguire, K. R., Greenberger, S. W., Martin, C. L., & Chavez, T. E. (2023) Refugee simulations: Transformative learning to improve character. Community College Journal of Research and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2023.2189182

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

Greenberger, S. W. (2020). Creating a guide for reflective practice: Applying Dewey’s reflective thinking to document faculty scholarly engagement. Reflective Practice, 21(4), 458-472. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2020.1773422

Greenberger, S. W. (2024). Revising the Guide for Reflective Practice: Problems and readiness. Reflective Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2024.2321512

Presentations

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.

Workshops

Greenberger, S. W., Maguire, K. R., & Murphy, C. (2022, May). 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., Or, J. M. L., and Downing, M. (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.