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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action [Paperback]

Donald A. Schon (Author)
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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 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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Donald A. Schön is Ford Professor of Urban Studies and Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Reading for Change Consultants!, April 23 2003
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Michael A. Beitler (Greensboro, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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Schon's work is critical for understanding organizational learning and management development. I quote his work in my book, "Strategic Organizational Change." Dr. Michael Beitler
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3.0 out of 5 stars This is an educational theory book, Aug 28 2000
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David Stengle (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This book discusses the history and theory of professional learning. Schon spends a great deal of time justifying what every professional knows - that framing problems is difficult and that book learning is insufficient to deal with these problems.

If you are interested in positivism, technical rationality, and the evolution of the modern professional school, then this book is loaded with meaty material. If, however, you want to apply methods built upon other epistemologies, go straight to his 2nd book, "Educating the Reflective Practitioner".

The book is well thought out, but I found it a heavy read. Not for the faint-of-heart.

I got a lot out of it. Recommended only for epistemology or history of professional school wonks.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tough reading - but definitly worht it !, Jun 11 2000
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A word of warning. This book is hard to read. Some things are reapeated over and over, while other detailes are never given proper treatment.

But - if you don't mind spending some time reading and analyzing the book, there are heaps of golden nuggets to find.

Schön illustrates why rational design processes doesn't work in reality (for computer enthusiasts this means an explanation of why the waterfall model will never work on real life problems). Instead he tries to explain how designer (architects, musicians, engineers etc.) really work, when they solve real problems. And how to teach expert knowledge to others.

I highly recommend this book for non-whimps...;-)

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