ABSTRACT
Chapter 12 considers Donald Schön’s concept of the reflective practitioner in relation to network leadership. Reflective practice is a way to step back and look up from everyday complexity and begin to make sense of it, enabling leaders to go beyond the available rules, facts, theories and operations, and in effect “remake their practice world”. Schön used this as his starting point to explore the relationship between practical competence and understanding and professional knowledge. An understanding of which is key to network leadership.
