ABSTRACT

In this concluding chapter, the main themes of Schein’s work as presented throughout the book are consolidated. The main focus is on Schein’s interiority, that is the quality of attentiveness to his cognitive processes (data of consciousness) while attending to data of sense (what he was seeing and hearing) in his experiences, understanding, judgements, decisions and action as a creative opportunist. The chapter demonstrates how Schein provides a model for scholar-practitioners to internalise the operations of their knowing so that knowing how they know becomes a learned skill and a skill for the scholarship of their practice. The final section of the chapter addresses the readers to appropriate Schein’s legacy by learning to draw on their interiority explicitly to guide their actions and research.