Donald Schön

Donald Alan Schön (Boston 1930 – Boston 1997) was a thinker in developing the theory and practice of reflective professional learning.

Publications

Books

(in English unless noted otherwise)

• Rationality in the Practical Decision-Process, University of Harvard, 1954. Ph.D. dissertation.
• The Displacement of Concepts. London: Tavistock, 1963; repr as Invention and the Evolution of Ideas, 1967; repr., 2003.

• Technology and Change: The New Heraclitus, Oxford: Pergamon, 1967; New York: Delacorte Press, 1967.
  • Teknologi och förändring, trans. Anders Jonason, Stockholm: Pan/Norstedt, 1969, 223 pp. (Swedish)
  • Gijutsu to henka: tekunorojī no hakyū kōka [技術と変化: テクノロジーの波及効果], Tokyo: Sangyōnōritsutankidaigakushuppanbu, 1970, 322 pp. (Japanese)

• Beyond the Stable State: Public and Private Learning in a Changing Society, Harmondsworth: Penguin/New York: Norton, 1973.
  • Blindgångare mot framtiden, trans. H. Plogvall, Stockholm: Pan/Norstedts, 1972. (Swedish)
  • Efter den stabile tilstand, trans. Arne Herløv Petersen, Lindhardt og Ringhof, 1972. (Danish)
  • Die lernende Gesellschaft, trans. Karl and Gerda Kühne, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1973. (German)

• with Chris Argyris, Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1974; repr., 1992.
  • French: 1999b
  • Théorie et pratique professionnelle: comment en accroître l'efficacité, trans. J. Heynemand and D. Gagnon, Outremont: Logiques, 1999. (French)

• with Chris Argyris, Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1978.

• The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action, New York: Basic Books, 1983; London: Temple Smith, 1983.
  • Il professionista riflessivo: per una nuova epistemologia della pratica professionale, trans. A. Barbanente, Bari: Dedalo, 1993. (Italian)
  • Le praticien réflexif : à la recherche du savoir caché dans l'agir professionnel, trans. J. Heynemand and D. Gagnon, Montréal: Logiques, 1994. (French)
  • El profesional reflexivo: Cómo piensan los profesionales cuando actúan, trans. José Bayo, Barcelona: Paidós, 1998. (Spanish)
  • Den reflekterende praktiker: hvordan professionelle tænker når de arbejder, trans. S. Fiil, Århus: Klim, 2001. (Danish)
  • Senmonka no chie: Hanseiteki jissenka wa kōi shinagara kangaeru, [専門家の知恵: 反省的実践家は行為しながら考える ], ゆみる出版, 2001, 229 pp. (Japanese)

• The Design Studio: An Exploration of its Traditions and Potentials, London: RIBA Publications, 1984, 99 pp.

• Educating the Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.
  • La formación de profesionales reflexivos: hacia un nuevo diseño de las enseñanza y el aprendizaje en las profesiones, trans. L. Montero and J. Manuel Vez Jeremias, Barcelona: Paidós & Madrid: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, 1992. (Spanish)
  • Educando o profissional reflexivo: um novo design para o ensino e a aprendizagem, trans. Roberto Cataldo Costa, Porto Alegre: Artes Medicas Sul, 2000. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Formare il professionista riflessivo: per una nuova prospettiva della formazione e dell'apprendimento nelle professioni, ed. Maura Striano, trans. & notes Davide Capperucci, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2006, 361 pp. (Italian)
  • Seisatsuteki jissen towa nanika: Purofesshonaru no kōi to shikō [省察的実践とは何か : プロフェッショナルの行為と思考], Tokyo: Ootori Shobō, 2007, 440 pp. (Japanese)
  • Uddannelse af den reflekterende praktiker: tiltag til en ny udformning af undervisning og læring for professionelle, Århus: Forlaget Klim, 2013. (Danish)

• editor, The Reflective Turn: Case Studies in and on Educational Practice, New York and London: Teachers College Press, 1991.
  • Le tournant réflexif: pratiques éducatives et études de cas, trans. Jacques Heynemand and Dolorès Gagnon, Montréal: Logiques, 1996, 532 pp. (French)

• with M. Rein, Frame Reflection: Toward the Resolution of Intractable Policy Controversies, New York: Basic Books, 1994.

• editor, with Bishwapriya Sanyal and William J. Mitchell, High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology, MIT Press, 1998.
  • Altaqanat al-'aliya wal mujtama'at that al-dakhl al-munkhafedh, Damas: al-Munaẓẓamah al- Arabīyah lil-Tarbiyah wa-al-Thaqāfah wa-al- Ulūm. al-markaz al-arabi lil ta'rib wal tarjama wal ta'lif wal nashr, 2003. (Arabic)

• with Chris Argyris, Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method and Practice, Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1996.
  • Apprendimento organizzativo: teoria, metodo e pratiche, trans. M. Marraffa, Milan: Guerini, 1998. (Italian)
  • Die lernende Organisation: Grundlagen, Methode, Praxis, trans. Wolfgang Riehl, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1999. (German)
  • Apprentissage organisationnel: théorie, méthode, pratique, trans. M. Aussanaire and P. Garcia-Melgares, Paris: DeBoeck Université, 2002. (French)
  • 組織學習：理論、方法與實踐, trans. Xialin Qing, Taipei City (Taiwan): ROC, Yuan-Liou Publishing, 2006. (Chinese)
  • 反映与回观: 教育与咨询实践的个案研究, trans. Lin-Ching Hsia, Beijing: Educational Science Publishing, 2011. (Chinese)

Bibliography

• Compiled by Stephen Newman and Karel van der Waarde, Mar 2015.

See also

• Design research

Links

• Profile at Infed
• Wikipedia