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The reflective practitioner : how professionals think in action / Donald A. Schon.

By: Schön, Donald A [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Aldershot [England] : Arena, 2002Copyright date: ©1991Description: x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781857423198 (paperback).Subject(s): Professions | Thought and thinking | Self-knowledge, Theory of | Psychology | Labour economics | Urban & municipal planning | Architecture: professional practice | Social & ethical issues | Social work | Knowledge management | Regional & area planning | Ergonomics | Management & management techniquesAdditional physical formats: Electronic version: The reflective practitioner : how professionals think in actionDDC classification: 153.4 | 153.4 SCH Also available in electronic form.
Contents:
The crisis of confidence in professional knowledge -- From technical rationality to reflection-in-action -- Design as a reflective conversation with the situation -- Psychotherapy: the patient as a universe of one -- The structure of reflection-in-action -- Reflection practice in the science-based professions -- Town planning: limits to reflection-in-action -- The art of managing: reflection-in-action within an organizational learning system -- Patterns and limits of reflection-in-action across the professions -- Implications for the professions and their place in society.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Bibliography: (pages 355-364) and index.

The crisis of confidence in professional knowledge -- From technical rationality to reflection-in-action -- Design as a reflective conversation with the situation -- Psychotherapy: the patient as a universe of one -- The structure of reflection-in-action -- Reflection practice in the science-based professions -- Town planning: limits to reflection-in-action -- The art of managing: reflection-in-action within an organizational learning system -- Patterns and limits of reflection-in-action across the professions -- Implications for the professions and their place in society.

CIT Module PLAC 6006 - Core reading.

CIT Module PLAC 7010 - Core reading.

CIT Module EDUC 8020 - Supplementary reading.

CIT Module PLAC 6001 - Core reading.

Also available in electronic form.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Professional Knowledge and Reflection-in-Action: The crisis of confidence in professional knowledge
  • From technical rationality to reflection-in-action
  • Professional Contexts for Reflection-in-Action: Design as a reflective conversation with the situation
  • Psychotherapy: The patient as a universe of one
  • The structure of reflection-in-action
  • Reflective practice in the science-based professions
  • Town planning: Limits to reflection-in-action
  • The art of managing: Reflection-in-action within an organizational learning system
  • Patterns and limits of reflection-in-action across the professions
  • Conclusion: Implications for the professions and their place in society

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Donald A. Schön, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA