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The Reflective Practitioner : How Professionals Think in Action / Donald A. Schön.

By: Schön, Donald A.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, [1983]Copyright date: ©1983Description: x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0465068782.Subject(s): Professions | Thought and thinking | Self-knowledge, Theory of | Denken | Deskundigen | Psicologia | Zelfkennis | Problem Solving | Professional Practice | ThinkingAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Reflective practitioner.DDC classification: 153.4 Online resources: Publisher description | Inhaltsverzeichnis Also issued online.
Contents:
Part 1. 1. The crisis of confidence in professional knowledge -- 2. From technical rationality to reflection-in-action -- Part 2. 3. Design as a reflective conversation with the situation -- 4. Psychotherapy : the patient as a universe of one -- 5. The structure of reflection-in-action -- 6. Reflective practice in the science-based professions -- 7. Town planning : limits to reflection-in-action -- 8. The art of managing : reflection-in-action within an organizational learning system -- 9. Patterns and limits of reflection-in-action across the professions -- Part 3. Conclusion. 10. Implications for the professions and their place in society.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index.

Part 1. 1. The crisis of confidence in professional knowledge -- 2. From technical rationality to reflection-in-action -- Part 2. 3. Design as a reflective conversation with the situation -- 4. Psychotherapy : the patient as a universe of one -- 5. The structure of reflection-in-action -- 6. Reflective practice in the science-based professions -- 7. Town planning : limits to reflection-in-action -- 8. The art of managing : reflection-in-action within an organizational learning system -- 9. Patterns and limits of reflection-in-action across the professions -- Part 3. Conclusion. 10. Implications for the professions and their place in society.

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.

Also issued online.