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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think
Schön, Donald A. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
Why this matters here
Donald A. Schön’s The Reflective Practitioner describes how professionals think in action through reflection-in-action rather than applying fixed technical rules regardless of context. How Serious Systems Learn uses that contrast when living heuristics freeze into doctrine: method fidelity rises while real-world fitness declines because identity displaces adaptation. Schön theorizes reflective practice; the book asks what institutional incentives freeze methods into myths that preserve identity over fitness.
