Professional education: A new approach and a new artistry

✍ Scribed by Desmond Rutherford

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 410 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0018-1560
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00139697

✦ Synopsis

This is an exciting and important book with far-reaching implications for the future of professional education. In this review I will explore Schon's main proposals and his supporting arguments, and then illustrate their relevance to academic staff training and development in the United Kingdom. My main aim is to make the essentials of Schon's approach to educating professionals readily accessible to a wide readership in order to encourage further experiment and development.

Schon argues that professional education focuses on the application of theory -