Learning Journals: A Handbook for Reflective Practice and Professional Development

Bought for use in the office.

Good

A*

Great help for my sister's uni course

This book should be about 30 pages long. If Ms. Moon sees the opportunity to take a simple point and stretch it over four convoluted paragraphs, you can guarantee that she will take that challenge and run with it.Her understanding and commitment to journaling as an aid to learning is commendable, but has not resulted in a straightforward, to-the-point writing style.There is helpful stuff here but you have to dig around the flowery academia to discover it. As a overview Moon refers to many other fascinating studies, but rarely gives practical examples from them. By the final chapters the sense of deja vu is overwhelming.

If you are asked to write a personal Journal as part of your psychology/psychotherapy/nursing(?)training course as you move away from, say, engineering or science then this book is an ideal asset. It helps you to reflect on your thinking, how you think and how to put your emotions down in words. Some parts of the book are directed towards Teachers of the above, and similar, subjects. Prepare yourself for these section as you might go deeper than you feel you need to, unless of course you're already a Teacher! An excellent start and useful motivation tool for all those thinkers out there.Worth the money, usual Amazon packaging and arrived well within predicted delivery time.

A great book - very easy to read and really informative, and one I keep returning to in order to improve my teaching practice and better understand my students.