The Reflective Turn: Case Studies in and on Educational Practice

By: Donald A. Schon

Book Overview

The reflective approach poses a series of questions for the researcher: What is appropriate to reflect on? What is an appropriate way of observing and reflecting on practice? When we have taken the reflective turn, what constitutes appropriate rigor? And finally, what does the reflective turn imply for one's research stance toward the research activity and toward oneself?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807730467
• ISBN13: 9780807730461
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Essential reading for the "inner game" of social change

This is an extraordinary collection of stories (some are stories about stories) of what goes on within communities (not just or even primarily geographic ones) as try to cahneg themselves. It complements a much larger literature on community and organizational development that tends to talk about external rather than internal forces. There is an especially powerful chapter of the dynamics of thinking among the children of holocaust perpetrators. Also fine-grained analyses of planned change in various schools and in the famous Fagor cooperatives of Basque country.

Essential reading for the "inner game" of social change

This is an extraordinary collection of stories (some are stories about stories) of what goes on within communities (not just or even priomarily geographic ones) as they wrestle with changing themselves. It complements a much larger literature on community and organizational development that tends to talk about external rather than internal matters. There is an especially powerful chapter of the dynamics of thinking among the children of holocaust perpetrators. Also fine-grained analysis planned change in various schools and in the famous Fagor cooperatives of Basque country.