The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #53856 in Books
- Published on: 1984-09-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
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About the Author
Donald A. Schön is Ford Professor of Urban Studies and Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Customer Reviews
Two-tiered knowledge
The author links academic and practical knowledge and sets them onto equal footing. He explains how practitioners know what they know, and he emphasizes the creative processes involved in planning and problem-solving. Schon's work addresses a variety of professions -- engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning -- and distills what they have in common.
Reflective Practitioner: Stepwise Discovery of Solutions
Dr. Schon addresses how professionals can better join in a process of learning and decision-making. By seeing life as a process involving both the service provider and the client/customer, the interaction itself provides additional tools and information. Coming out of an industrial engineering perspective, processes of decision-making can be structured to require step-by-step participation in problem definition and solution clarification. Best quote: "A skillful teacher draws out critical facts, and by a sequence of astutely chosen questions leads students through a process of inquiry which serves both to structure the "solution space" of the situation at hand and to demonstrate a mode of thinking about business problems."
not great, not bad
i wasn't too thrilled with this book... mainly because .... i didn't find it eye opening.... i felt that it took simple concepts and made it into high concepts and it became repetitive... if this is what ppl have to read to discover that ppl scale situations differently using a combination of their experience and knowledge... ~ save your money, eating a hamburger would be better off....
chpt 5 talks about the structure of reflection in action...
- evaluatin experiments in problem setting
- bringing past experience to bear on a unique situation
- rigor in on the spot experiment
- virtual worlds
-stance in inquiry
ie. schon's virtual world is to simulate reality... the practitioner constructs and manipulates virtual worlds in order to experiment rigorously (#3 see above)... pg 157... ie. architecture & sketchpad, engineer and models/computer simulation, etc.... we should know this... that's all i mean...



