The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action

by Donald A. Schon (Author)

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  1984

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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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  Paperback
  1991

  $7.28

  A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions a engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning a to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald SchA n 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 SchA n'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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  Paperback
  1991

  $38.99

  A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions a engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning a to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald SchA n 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 SchA n'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.