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 ==== Commentary ==== ==== Commentary ====
  
-=== Preface ===-+=== Key points ====
  
-I have become convinced that universitites are not devoted to the production and distribution of fundamental knowledge in general. They are institutions committed, for the most part, to a particular epistemology, a view of knowledge that fosters selective inattention to practical competence and professional artistry.+  * Professions: professional knowledge, but also professional art 
 +    * professional knowledge (specialized, stable, firmly bound, standardized) p.24 
 +  * "crisis" because epistemology cannot explain or describe this art 
 + 
 +=== Preface === 
 + 
 +>I have become convinced that universities are not devoted to the production and distribution of fundamental knowledge in general. They are institutions committed, for the most part, to a particular epistemology, a view of knowledge that fosters selective inattention to practical competence and professional artistry.
  
 === Chapter 1 === === Chapter 1 ===
  
-"We conduct society's principal business through professionals specially trained to carry out that business"+>"We conduct society's principal business through professionals specially trained to carry out that business"
  
-"Our principal formal institutions - schools, hospitals, government agencies, courts of law, armies - are arenas for the exercise of professional activity"+>"Our principal formal institutions - schools, hospitals, government agencies, courts of law, armies - are arenas for the exercise of professional activity"
  
-Rise of professions +==Rise of professions == 
-- "claim to extraordinary knowledge in matters of social importance" Everett Hughes +>- "claim to extraordinary knowledge in matters of social importance" Everett Hughes 
-granted "professionals extraordinary rights and privileges"+granted "professionals extraordinary rights and privileges"
  
-"Professional careers are among the most coveted and remunerative" +>"Professional careers are among the most coveted and remunerative" 
-"few occupations that failed to seek out professional status"+>"few occupations that failed to seek out professional status"
  
-"We are bound to an epistemology of practice which leave us at a loss to explain, or even to describe, the competences to which we now give overriding importance."+>"We are bound to an epistemology of practice which leave us at a loss to explain, or even to describe, the competences to which we now give overriding importance."
      
 +
 +Professional knowledge held as the reason professions "fulfill the espoused purposes of the professions" p 13
 +  * but all fields are VUCA -- "complexity, uncertainty, instability, uniqueness, and value conflict"
 +  * adaptability is key -- as knowledge cannot keep up with demands of practice -- Harvey Brooks p.15
 +
 +Russel Ackoff:
 +"Managers do not solve problems: they manage messes"
 +
 +Erik Erikson:
 +"a universe of one"
 +
 +"If it is true that there is an irreducible element of art in professional practice, it is also true that gifted engineers, teachers, scientists, architects, and managers sometimes display artistry in their day-to-day practice. If the art is not invariant, known, and teachable, it appears nonetheless, at least for some individuals, to be learnable."
 +p. 18
 +
 +"finding the right problem"
 +
 +==== Concepts ====
 +  * Rising and decline of the professions
 +  * Major and minor professions
 +  * Professions and technical rationality/ expertise
 +  * Divide between the "basic scientists" and practitioners - university and the practice -> a RIA --> a new form
 +  * Bureaucracy and professions
 +  * A new epistemology of practice: reflection in action 
  
 ==== History ==== ==== History ====
   * 2020-08-15 Created   * 2020-08-15 Created
 +  * 2020-12-10 Finished first reading
      
 ==== Source ==== ==== Source ====
 Schön, D. A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Temple Smith. Schön, D. A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Temple Smith.
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