About the book
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.
Editions of Reflective Practitioner
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780465068784
- EBook
- ISBN 9780786725366
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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.
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What is Reflective Practitioner about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Reflective Practitioner?
Society and Social Sciences > Psychology > Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints > Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
Where can I read a sample of Reflective Practitioner?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780465068784
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Reflective Practitioner?
Donald A. Schon
Who is the Publisher of the book Reflective Practitioner?
Basic Books
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Reflective Practitioner is available as paperback(ISBN 9780465068784) and ebook(ISBN 9780786725366)
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