Teaching Academy
Document Type
Planning for Active Learning
Publication Date
Spring 2015
Abstract
In The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (1983), Schön introduced the idea of knowing-in-action or “reflection-in-action,” observing that “[w]hen we go about the spontaneous, intuitive performance of the actions in everyday life, we show ourselves to be knowledgeable in a special way. Often we cannot say what it is that we know . . . [because it is] implicit in our patterns or action and in our feel for the stuff with which we are dealing” (p. 49). According to Schön, knowing-in-action complements reflection.
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Recommended Citation
Longfield, Judith, "Reflection as the Key to Intuitive Knowing" (2015). Teaching Academy. 28.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/teaching-academy/28
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