The reflective practitioner
Subtitle: how professionals think in action
By: Donald A. Schön.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Professions; Thought and thinking; Self-knowledge, Theory of
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.