Facilitating reflective learning journeys in sport co-operative education

Facilitated reflection strategies can enhance the learning outcomes for students. However, an important question is whether the strategies utilised are related to the needs of the learner and the learning environment. This paper highlights co-operative education students' reflective journeys over the period of their final work placement of a three-year bachelor degree programme in sport. Comments from the students' final reports illustrated that the critical reflection strategies were relevant to the needs of the learner, enabled them to process the experience, and to develop their learning, professional growth and confidence as reflective practitioners.