The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in ActionA 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. |
Contents
Limits to ReflectioninAction | |
ReflectioninAction | |
Patterns and Limits of ReflectioninAction | |
Implications for the Professions and Their Place | |
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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action Donald A. Schon No preview available - 2008 |
The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action Donald A. Sch No preview available - 2017 |
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