critical reflection

I have been reading up about critical reflection as the backbone to this assignment. It is obviously an important element in all proffessions to ensure best practice but particularly in teaching it is the centre of teaching and learning for both pupils and staff. All elements of teaching it seems should be open to critical reflection as we all come to the proffession with our own backgrounds and make judgments on all things dependent on that background. I know that the basis of this assignment for me is to have the opportunity to challenge my own judgments about art education and what is important and valuable. I have in the past been part of the John Holt school of thought where education should be kept real, simple and raw. I still am heavily lead by those kinds of principles but I wonder what John Holt would have made of the Technological advancements of 2000 and beyond. Would he have been able to embrace it on certain levels or would he have steered clear away from it? I guess I may be able to find out what his views were at the end of his life but how relevant that would be to now would be difficult to tell. I'll come back to that........