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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
 
 

The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Paperback)

by Donald A. Schon (Author) "The professions have become essential to the very functioning of our society ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Basic Books (2 Sep 1984)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0465068782
  • ISBN-13: 978-0465068784
  • Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professionsengineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planningto show how professionals really go about solving problems.. A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professionsengineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planningto show how professionals really go about solving problems.The best professionals, Donald Schn 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 Schns 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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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Education for all professionals on intuitive insight, 10 Jun 2000
Schon provides information on a subject that many practitioners are aware of but that few know how to put into words; intuition, what it is, and its regular use in daily professional practice. He gives voice to the practical aspects of intuitive practice and reflection in action that professionals from all genres utilize.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A must read for self-aware practitioners, 23 Aug 1998
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In this book, Schon gives us a language for understanding professional practice. Because the sum of what a professional knows is greater than the sum of what he is aware he knows -- let alone the totality of what he can articulate -- there is a hidden world of practitioner competence. I found Schon to be a little repetitive and his examples difficult to fully conceptualize. However, his discussion of the Technical Rationality model and his vignettes of five professions provide a framework which may be applied to the practice of any profession. I believe that readers of this book can enhance their self-awareness as professionals and artists.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Reflective Practitioner, 19 May 2004
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This is the first book on reflexive practice that I have read and it seemed to cover the topic comprehensivly. I had heard of Donald Schon as the Father of Reflection-in-action. Unfortunately it was not a particularly easy read; although some effort was made to include anecdotes, the text could be more fluent. I was really hoping for something that painted a warm, detailed and informative picture rather than a more text book type of approach.
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