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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Arena)
Donald A. Schön
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Description for The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Arena)
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KCF; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 135 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 566. How Professionals Think in Action. 384 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: KCF; KJM. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 24. Weight: 578.
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 Schön 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 Schön's provocatively original book, an effort to show precisely how 'reflection-in-action' works and how this vital creativity might be fostered in ... Read more
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 Schön 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 Schön's provocatively original book, an effort to show precisely how 'reflection-in-action' works and how this vital creativity might be fostered in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857423198
SKU
V9781857423198
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About Donald A. Schön
Donald A. Schön, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Reviews for The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Arena)
’An important contribution to the literature of planning theory and practice. The Reflective Practitioner offers much food for thought about how planning should be taught and practiced.’ Judith I deNeufville, American Planning Association Journal, USA ’Clarifies the struggle between art and science in the professional manager’s thought process. It is also well written.’ Harvard Business Review