Educating the Reflective Practitioner

Building on the concepts of professional competence that he introduced in his classic The Reflective Practitioner, Schon offers an approach for educating professional in all areas that will prepare them to handle the complex and unpredictable problems of actual practice with confidence, skill, and care. Part One: The Roles of Artisty in Professional Education
Part Two: The Architectural Studio: A Prototype of Education for Reflection-in-Action
Part Three: Examples and Experiments
Part Four: Implications for Professional Education

Donald Alan Schön was a philosopher and professor in urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who developed the concept of reflective practice and contributed to the theory of organizational learning.

This book offers an approach for educating professionals in all areas that will prepare them to handle the complex and unpredictable problems of actual practice with confidence, skill, and care. Builds on the concepts of professional competence that Schon introduced in The Reflective Practitioner (1983).