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 ==== Commentary ==== ==== Commentary ====
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 +=== Key points ====
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 +  * 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 === === Preface ===
  
->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.+>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 ===
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 >"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."
      
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 Professional knowledge held as the reason professions "fulfill the espoused purposes of the professions" p 13 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" +  * 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+  * adaptability is key -- as knowledge cannot keep up with demands of practice -- Harvey Brooks p.15
  
 Russel Ackoff: Russel Ackoff:
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 "finding the right problem" "finding the right problem"
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 +==== 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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