An Action-oriented Understanding of Reflection

This paper explores commonalities in antecedents, context, process, out-comes, and techniques that foster action-oriented Reflection through the pragmatic methodological processing of reflection theories from Mezirow, Dewey, Schön, and Reflective Practice-based Learning. Despite the widespread adoption of reflective practices across various fields of study and practice, reflection remains a complex and challeng-ing concept to comprehend. One of the reasons why reflection is diffi-cult to understand is that the scientific work around reflection has often focused on defining different conceptions of reflection using different semantics. When researchers study reflection, they tend to analyze defi-nitions of reflection instead of focusing on the phenomenon of reflection itself. Semantically rooted definitions represent how we should act, and not necessarily what happens when reflection occurs. Signs of actions in reflection across the theories and Reflective Prac-tice-based Learning are analyzed and presented as a theoretical model for Action-oriented Reflection. The model visualizes the process from pre-reflective sensing to the effect of reflective actions