The Reflective Practitioner
Book description
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 Schoen maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Reflective Practitioner as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is the seminal book on reflection in problem-solving and design.
For me, the dominant theme is that effective design involves dynamics. One is the interplay between disciplines of knowledge and thought, and improvisation informed by experience. Another is the interplay between actions and reflection on those actions – and their results.
Schön characterises ‘reflection in action’ and conveys its importance in creative design and problem-solving. Every time I return to this book, I find something more to inform my thinking.
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