While taking courses in my graduate studies in school counseling, I learned a lot about Piaget and his theory. For this assignment, I chose to look more deeply at King and Kitchener's model of reflective judgment. I chose this theory because it concerns reflection, which was a very important component of my conversation with an adult educator. I agreed with the person I interviewed when she said that she thought adults learn best through reflection. I wanted to delve deeper into this area. According to King and Kitchener's model, "people move through seven stages, with the final two stages comprising more mature thought patterns of what King and Kitchener call reflective thinking" (Merriam, Caffarella, & Baumgartner, 2007, p. 332). They focused on how people make judgments about complex issues or problems. The first three stages are labeled pre-reflective thinking. During these stages, people see knowledge as coming from authority figures. In the first phase the knowledge is concrete. Beliefs do not need to be justified and are considered absolute. The second stage assumes that knowledge is absolute and can be obtained through authority figures or through personal experience. During this stage, most problems have one right answer. The third stage also has an absolute answer, but may be temporarily uncertain until knowledge is obtained from an authority figure or observed. In all three of these stages, knowledge is absolute. There is a right answer. Stages four and five are called quasi-reflective reasoning, where people have more subjective thinking. In stage four, knowledge is uncertain and determined by providing reasons and using evidence, but the evidence is often chosen to fit an established belief. projects and assignments. Although my classroom teaching experience involves middle school students, I see no reason why this approach couldn't work with adults as well. I believe that both King and Kitchener's model of reflective judgment and Levinson's age rating model both contain the element of reflection and allow for great collaboration between adult learners. I believe both of these elements are essential to succeed as an adult learner and adult educator. Reflection and collaboration were both central elements of my interview with an adult educator. I hope to find a way to incorporate both of these elements into my style as an adult educator. I truly believe that we learn best from past experiences and both of these theories allow students to reflect and use critical thinking to move forward in their lives.