The Reflective Practitioner
How Professionals Think In Action
Donald A. Schon
- 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
- Schon
- 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
- Schon'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.
