The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In ActionA 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. |
Contents
The Crisis of Confidence in Professional Knowledge | 3 |
From Technical Rationality to ReflectioninAction | 21 |
Design as a Reflective Conversation with the Situation | 74 |
Psychotherapy The Patient as a Universe of One | 103 |
The Structure of ReflectioninAction | 126 |
Reflective Practice in the ScienceBased Professions | 166 |
Town Planning Limits to ReflectioninAction | 202 |
The Art of Managing ReflectioninAction Within an Organizational Learning System | 234 |
Patterns and Limits of ReflectioninAction Across the Professions | 265 |
Implications for the Professions and Their Place in Society | 285 |
NOTES | 353 |
INDEX | 363 |
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