Description
| Product ID: | 9781857423198 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Reflective Practitioner |
| Subtitle: | How Professionals Think in Action |
| Authors: | Author: Donald A. Schon |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Labour / income economics, Labour economics, Management and management techniques, Management & management techniques |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Ashgate Publishing Limited |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1991-08-22 |
