ABSTRACT
The third stage is, quite simply, a reevaluation of an overall experience. Refl ection, as we have mentioned, is a critical element of learning to think strategically, and refl ection is utilized in all three stages of the informal learning process. Yet refl ection plays a particular role at the end of the three-stage informal learning process: to validate prior learning or justify our beliefs. Refl ection in this third stage is critical and evaluative in nature, and it is used to “review” actions and decisions and to provide the rationale for those decisions. In essence, it “checks” our strategic decisions.
