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Educating the reflective practitioner : toward a new design for teaching and learning in the professions

The problems that professional practitioners - such as lawyers, doctors or engineers - face are rarely straightforward and clear. They are frequently complex and lack right answers. Skillful professional practice often depends less on factual knowledge or rigid decision-making models then on the capacity to reflect before taking action in cases where established theories do not apply. Yet most professional schools only teach students standard scientific theories and how to apply them to straightforward problems - and so fail to equip future professionals with the skills they need to deal with the difficult problems of the real world.

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