ABSTRACT
The third stage is, in short, a reevaluation of an overall experience. Reflection, as we have mentioned, is a critical element of learning to think strategically, and it is utilized in all three stages of the informal learning process. Yet it plays a particular role at the end of the three-stage informal learning process. The primary function of reflection is validation of prior learning, or justification of our beliefs. Reflection in this third stage is critical and evaluative in nature, and it impacts our strategic decisions. Within this last stage of the informal learning process, reflection is used to “review” the action and decisions and to provide the rationale for those decisions created during the experience stage.
