The Reflective Practitioner
How Professionals Think In Action

OK, I read this book for social work school, so it's not exactly the next volume in Harry Potter. If it were, however, the book would likely be called "Harry Potter: A Guide to Expert Wizardy in an age of Failed Experts." To give you a glimpse. Basically, the book explores the idea of the failed prof......more

This article was what prompted me to read this book: [URL not allowed] You might get impatient with parts of it because you may have already seen some of the major revelations revealed in this book in later works based on these ideas. If I were to assign this as reading to some......more

This is a slow read with great ideas exploring the way that professionals behave in situations and how they could behave differently if they incorporated reflection into their practice. There were times when trying to stay focused was challenging (a couple case studies), but the overall message and......more

I've been thinking a lot lately about how we conceptualize and frame our own work and learning. Schön's work is fantastic for this because his central thesis is that reflective practitioners actively look at their work while they are engaged in that work. They listen to the "back-talk" from the situ......more

I decided to read this book because it seems to occupy a central place in the canon of "design thinking" literature. The central idea of the book is that the conventional view of professional practice as the mere application of research is flawed; that in fact, practitioners actually conduct researc......more