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Donald A. Schön – 1983. Introduction. Schön’s work revolves around the learning process in ‘the professions’ and is a reaction to the Model of Technical Rationality, which is the reverse of the ‘Reflection in Action’ approach he proposes.
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.
Jan 7, 2013 · Donald Schon (Schön): learning, reflection and change. Donald Schon made a remarkable contribution to our understanding of the theory and practice of learning. His innovative thinking around notions such as ‘the learning society’, ‘double-loop learning’ and ‘reflection-in-action’ has become part of the language of education.
We examine the work of Donald Schön and Martin Heidegger and agree with these authors’ suggestions that technical rationality and modern technology are not the way to achieve good practice in the human services.
This unarticulated, largely unexamined process is the subject of Schön's provocatively original book, an effort to show precisely how " reflection-inaction " works and how this vital creativity might be fostered in future professionals.
Schoen Smith is known for Giving Voice (2020), American Street Kid (2016) and Chicago Fire (2012).
Donald Alan Schön (September 19, 1930 – September 13, 1997) was an American philosopher and professor in urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He developed the concept of reflective practice and contributed to the theory of organizational learning.
