Reflective methods carry inherent dangers of overanalysis and of becoming ends rather than means, and can go wrong¶

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q1 i? The paper identifies inherent dangers in overanalysis and in treating reflective methods as ends instead of means, and notes reflective analysis can go wrong, though the method is self-corrective. → Willower 1992

Evidence¶

Willower 1992¶

Willower, Donald J. (1992). Dewey's Theory of Inquiry and Reflective Administration. Paper presented at the annual convention of the University Council for Educational Administration, Minneapolis. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED355669

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The paper's stated limitations of reflective methods, in its institutionalization section. It adds that deciding which problems deserve extended reflective analysis is itself a problem, that numerous decisions are not really controversial or complex, and that a few visible failures can have serious negative consequences if realistic expectations have not been established beforehand. This is the authors' interpretive position, not a tested result.

"Obviously, there are inherent dangers in overanalysis and in seeing reflective methods as endsinstead of means, what Dewey called the vices of reflection"

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