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Educating the Reflective Practitioner
Schon's 1987 follow-up to The Reflective Practitioner — the book that detailed the pedagogical implications of his framework through extended analysis of design studios and reflective practicums.
Educating the Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions (1987) extended Schon's 1983 framework into the domain of professional education. Where The Reflective Practitioner diagnosed the failure of technical-rationality pedagogy, Educating prescribed the remedy: the reflective practicum, modeled on the architecture design studio, in which students develop tacit competence through coached engagement with genuine professional situations. The book contains Schon's most detailed analyses of pedagogical practice — including extended commentary on the Quist-Petra exchange — and his most developed account of how master practitioners teach without transmitting, how students learn through doing, and how the reflective stance that distinguishes professional competence can be systematically cultivated rather than left to chance.
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The book's core argument is that professional education must be restructured around the reflective practicum. Lecture-based transmission of articulable knowledge — the dominant model since the rise of the research university in the late nineteenth century — produces