A review of Donald A. Schön's, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action

Donald Schön’s book, first published in 1983, has inspired generations of practitioners and educators ever since, including those within social work. We have chosen to introduce this seminal work with a review written by Emslie and Watts from RMIT University in which they offer an excellent summary of Schön’s ideas and of the contribution that he has made to professional education, theory and practice over the last 50 years or so. The Further Reading below contains some applications of Schön’s ideas in the real-world setting of social work practice today.