ABSTRACT
This chapter brings the application of the philosophy of social science explored in the previous chapter to Schein’s practice of reflexivity, which the book terms, interiority. How Schein attended to his cognitional operations, that is how he was thinking about what he was seeing and hearing, is at the centre of his interiority. The chapter provides a general empirical method that describes how Schein engaged in three practices: personal reflexivity, collaborative work with others and generating practical knowledge, and how his scholarship of practice is formulated in terms of three themes: interiority, practical knowing and inquiring in the present tense, each of which is explored. Underpinning this exploration is Schein’s own portrayal of himself as an artist and how what excited him was an ability to represent something that was meaningful to others and so do so was partly an artistic skill. The questions for study and reflection at the end of the chapter invite the reader to reflect on their own interiority so as to internalise what and how they have learned and are learning as social scientists.
