A quotation closes her preface: “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions”; through this book, I guess her mind has been stretched by reflective practice and reflective education.

Following an overview of the origins of reflection theories, the author—based on action research in a seven-month postgraduate course of six different professions where she unfolded her model—explains how different levels of reflection can be understood and incorporated into everyday teaching and training. Chapter 2 reviews the work of forerunner theorists (Dewey, Habermas, Mezirow, Freire, Brookfield), compares the reflection stages as conceived by each of them, and finishes with the perspectives …