How do multitextual reflection experiences impact reflective practices for pre-service art education teachers? The research conducted for my dissertation was guided by this research question. My interest was to find out if multitextual reflection experiences might impact reflective practices for pre-service art teachers and in what ways those impacts were made evident in the data collected and analyzed. My dissertation was designed around a conceptual framework of Defining Reflection, Teaching Reflection, and Making Reflection Real through a dual methodological lens of Art-Based Educational Research and Self-Study. A review of the literature revealed claims that reflection lacked focused attention of definition, modeled practice, relevance to lived experiences, research within scholarly literature, and a clear understanding of what reflection is. These claims provided a basis for my conceptual framework and defined my contention that reflection could be defined, taught, and made real through multitextual reflection -- a reflective practice using arts-based methods to reveal a more observable, tangible reflective action incorporating multiple textual formats. These formats were determined by the research participants and supported by critical, dialogical actions expanding reflective practice to more than words on a page and into artifacts that illustrated thinking as a multitextual process. These artifacts, along with related discussion sessions, interviews, and a questionnaire provided the basis of data collection and analysis. Two methods of data analysis were incorporated: Critical Discourse Analysis for the written, spoken, and transcribed data and an Art Criticism Model for the multitextual artifacts produced. Narrative was used to introduce and guide my reader through the dissertation chapters, and I included multitextual images to illustrate how the reflective acts I describe could be made real. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]