Reflective PractitionerA leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions--engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning--to show how professionals really go about solving problems.The best professionals, Donald Schön maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on the kind of improvisation learned in practice. This unarticulated, largely unexamined process is the subject of Schön’s provocatively original book, an effort to show precisely how ”reflection-in-action” works and how this vital creativity might be fostered in future professionals. |
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User Review - jorgearanda - LibraryThingA provocative and powerful view of practical knowledge. Schon argues that effective professionals do not simply follow the accepted body of knowledge corresponding to their field, but instead engage ... Read full review
Contents
The Crisis of Confidence in Professional | 3 |
Action | 21 |
PAH PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS FOR REFLECTIONINACTION | 71 |
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| Title | Reflective Practitioner Basic Books Volume 5126 of Harper torchbooks |
| Author | Donald A. Schon |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 1983 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 28, 2007 |
| ISBN | 046506874X, 9780465068746 |
| Length | 374 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / General |
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