Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action - Hardcover

Donald A. Schön

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0851172318 ISBN 13: 9780851172316

Publisher: Maurice Temple Smith Ltd, 1983

Synopsis

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 future professionals.

About this title

About the Author

Donald A. Schön is Ford Professor of Urban Studies and Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Review

'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

Edition details

• Publisher: Maurice Temple Smith Ltd
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0851172318
• ISBN 13: 9780851172316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364