Educating The Reflective Practitioner by Donald A. Schön
Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions
This work argues that professional education must move beyond technical rationality to cultivate reflection-in-action, enabling practitioners to frame and reframe messy, ambiguous problems as they work. Drawing on examples from fields such as design, management, and engineering, it advocates studio- and practicum-based learning where students learn by doing, experiment, and engage in a reflective conversation with the situation under the guidance of skilled coaches. It outlines methods like demonstration, feedback, and critique to develop professional artistry, and calls for curricula that emphasize problem framing, improvisation, and learning from surprises in real contexts.
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- Published
- 1987
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 350-380
- Original Language
- English
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