Community of reflective practice: Middle leaders development

Abstract

Since 2015, the MLS Course Facilitation component of the programme, which has to do with help participants develop reflective practice knowledge and skills so as to use it to deepen their learning in the MLS has been of interest to both the Programme Leader and the Associate Dean, Leadership and Learning, GPL. The initial interest was borne of out two main events or thinking. First, the strength of the MLS programme has always been its self-directed and self-organization in learning, which is consistent with principles of adult learning theory, and more so with principles of social theory of learning. Second, the demands on manpower and man hours have the tendency to be high due to the number of reflections per participant. This study was motivated by these two ideas or thinking.