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      The Reflective Practitioner
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      The Reflective Practitioner

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      How Professionals Think in Action

      The Reflective Practitioner

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      The Reflective Practitioner book

      How Professionals Think in Action
      ByDonald A. Schön
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1992
      eBook Published 5 January 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315237473
      Pages 384
      eBook ISBN 9781315237473
      Subjects Built Environment, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Engineering & Technology, Health and Social Care, Social Sciences
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      Schön, D.A. (1992). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315237473

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part I PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND REFLECTION-IN-ACTION

      chapter 1|18 pages

      The Crisis of Confidence in Professional Knowledge

      chapter 2|50 pages

      From Technical Rationality to Reflection-in- Action

      part |5 pages

      Part II PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS FOR REFLECTION-IN-ACTION

      chapter 3|29 pages

      Design as a Reflective Conversation with the Situation

      chapter 4|23 pages

      Psychotherapy: The Patient as a Universe of One

      chapter 5|40 pages

      The Structure of Reflection-in-Action

      chapter 6|36 pages

      Reflective Practice in the Science-Based Professions

      chapter 7|32 pages

      Town Planning: Limits to Reflection-in-Action

      chapter 8|31 pages

      The Art of Managing: Reflection-in-Action Within an Organizational Learning System

      chapter 9|18 pages

      Patterns and Limits of Reflection-in-Action Across the Professions

      part |2 pages

      Part III CONCLUSION

      chapter 10|68 pages

      Implications for the Professions and Their Place in Society

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