Professionals thinking

In 1980 s yet another approach of teacher education has emerged. It is based on Schon s notion of reflective practitioner. This approach is committed to analysing how professionals think in action and it seems to hold much promise for teacher education in general. 

Schon, D., 1994. The Reflective Practitioner How Professionals Think in Action. Ashgate Puhhshing Limited, Surrey. 

Schon, D. A. (1991). The reflective practitioner how professionals think in action. Aldershot Avebury. 

Schon, D. (1983) Educating the reflective practioner How Professionals Think in Practice, Basic Books, New York... 

Comments made about incident investigation in the previously mentioned August 2003 Report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board are identical to the conclusions I drew as a result of that research. As the following excerpts from that report are read, I suggest that safety professionals think about how they relate to the quality of the incident investigation systems in the entities with which they are involved. 

Schon, D. A., The Reflective Practitioner How Professionals Think in Action (New York Basic Books, 1983) Schon, D. A., Educating the Reflective Practitioner (San Francisco Jossey-Bass, 1987). 

This is not to say that we deem these topics not to be important. On the contrary, we think that those interested in chemoinformatics should strive to obtain a basic knowledge of these subjects. We even think that all professionals in natural sciences and engineering should in future obtain a minimum of training in these fields during their studies. However, presentation here of those aspects of informatics would go beyond the scope of this book. 

What finally saw the book through to its conclusion I confess to not having a solid answer. However, I am fairly certain that, had it not been for a serendipitous intervention of Jungian synchronicity, the book would never have been completed. In my professional capacity as a research analyst for the US Navy (working for a think tank that also does work for the Marine Corps), I had the distinct privilege and honor of getting to know a truly visionary military thinker Lt.Gen (Ret) Paul van Riper. 

Professional communities can be very diverse in their thinking ... 

And there always was a risk risk seemed as necessary to my desire as the man s intelligence or his body. A risk bred of some impediment professional or personal, to put it no more crudely than that. What I told myself I wanted from him—loved in him, I swore—was never his to give, at least not freely or publicly. Though I refused to see it like that until Izzy, uncharacteristically brutal, pointed it out. I was crying over the latest, and she had her arm around me. But what she said was I think you look for people where there s something in the way, Una. I think you need it to be like that. ... 

Somehow I find a neutral, scholarly voice. Well the diocesan archivist is the proper person, as Anne s husband said. But I ve got the copy and there s no reason I shouldn t use it If I were a young, hungry history post-doc, I d think I was made, professionally speaking. ... 

The presentation is mainly on a fundamental and general level and yet the reader—student or professional—is gradually and almost casually introduced to all important natural and synthetic polymers. Complicated phenomena are explained with the aid of the simplest available examples and models in order to ensure complete understanding. However, the reader is also encouraged to think for himself and even to criticize the author s point of view. All of the chapters have been revised and enlarged from the German edition, and many of the sections are entirely new. 

If there s one thing that still makes me anxious, it s having to deal with a myopic mainstream health care professional. It s almost like it s imprinted in my body. Those fifteen years when I was searching for answers, I think I was abused, in some instances, by less than caring physicians who didn t understand and who wanted to discard me into their medical wastebaskets because I wasn t good for their ego, because I would have an adverse reaction to whatever prescription they wrote for me. I just didn t fit into their cookie-cutter mold, you know. 

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