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ORGL 3000. The Feedback Loop between Reflection and Action (Korthagen & Vasalos) Two other education theorists, Korthagen and Vasalos, describe the process of self-transformation through learning experiences and reflection on those experiences as a feedback loop. Note the phases one can go through in analyzing, describing and reflecting on previous experiences. We have some action that we undertake, we look back on it, we become aware of essential aspects of it (aspects that we might not have been fully aware of when we were “in the moment” of the action itself), and we create and think up new alternative modes of action. The idea here is that reflective learning is a developmental process, a process in which we see what works and what doesn’t work, and we modify what we do based on how it is working, over and over again, perhaps all the time:

From: Korthagen, Fred A.J., & Vasalos, Angelo (2010). Going to the core: Deepening reflection by connecting the person to the profession (Chapter 27, in Nona Lyons (Ed.) Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry. New York: Springer.)

Photo of Fred A.J. Korthagen taken from: http://www.aera.net/About-AERA/Fellows/2015-AERA-Fellows Photo of Angelo Vasalos taken from: http://absolutewakefulness.com/about-angelo