The reflective practitioner : how professionals think in action
Donald A. Schön (Author)
A 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 SchOn 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 SchOn'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
1 online resource (x, 374 pages) : illustrations
9780786725366, 9781351883160, 9781351883153, 0786725362, 135188316X, 1351883151
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Part 1. 1. The crisis of confidence in professional knowledge
2. From technical rationality to reflection-in-action
Part 2. 3. Design as a reflective conversation with the situation
4. Psychotherapy : the patient as a universe of one
5. The structure of reflection-in-action
6. Reflective practice in the science-based professions
7. Town planning : limits to reflection-in-action
8. The art of managing : reflection-in-action within an organizational learning system
9. Patterns and limits of reflection-in-action across the professions
Part 3. Conclusion. 10. Implications for the professions and their place in society
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010