Understanding and Describing Evidence

Assessment item 1:- Understanding and Describing Evidence.

The topic that I have chosen is Critical Reflection in Adult Education.

Sourcing relevant information led me to various locations and mediums including electronic databases, internet search engines and libraries.

DATABASES

On-line searches of databases were interesting and informative as a new medium that I’ve never ventured into. Using the computer at the UWS library and at home I entered the ERIC and Proquest Education Complete databases and gained information as follows.

• Access UWS library Voyager front page

• Click on database

• Scroll file to ERIC and click go

• This opens the Webspirs Netscape page

• Tick the ERIC database 1992-2000 and click search

• 1. Typed in �critical reflection’ in �words anywhere’ and highlight �English’

• 229 results displayed

• 2. Typed in �adult education’ and click search

• 11949 results displayed

• Clicked to �Advance Search’ and combined my search which narrowed it down to 25 results for �Critical reflection’ and �adult education’. Three relevant examples are-

1. Brookfield, Stephen D. (1995) Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. Jossey-Bass.

2. Stein, David. (2000) Teaching Critical Reflection. Myths and Realities No. 7.

3. Brookfield, Stephen. A Critical Definition of Adult Education. Adult Education Quarterly; v36 n1 p44-49 Fall 1985.

Another database accessed was �Education Complete –Proquest’.

ERIC can also be