Don’t Waste My Time; Exploring the Reflective Journaling Requirement in the Student Teaching Experience

Affective and developmental transitions: qualitative themes in multicultural counseling journals

“…For example, Warkentin (2011) used ecological journaling as a means to assess changes in attitudes toward nature, and Butler and Scharmann (2015) used journals to assess student acceptance of evolutionary science. In education, journals have been used as tools to foster growth in multicultural attitudes for pre-service teachers, reflecting a variety of journaling strategies such as reflective journals (Spiker, 2014;Spinthourakis, 2007), and dialogue journals or shared journals where students respond to each other's journal entries (Garmon, 1998;Pewewardy, 2005). In multicultural counseling, journals and reaction papers have been used to foster increasing acceptance of multicultural concepts (Mio and Barker-Hackett, 2003).…”