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Lifelong Learners, Schön, and The Fifth Discipline
Friday, July 2, 2004

"While many professionals seem to stop learning as soon as they leave graduate school, those who become lifelong learners practice what [Donald Schön] calls 'reflection in action,' the ability to reflect on one's thinking while acting." (192)

Maintaining a mindset of lifelong learning has helped me tremendously. Earlier this year, Pat and I started up a distributed study group called Lifelong Learners. Some excellent relationships were formed even as the group's members began to get pulled away by other commitments (myself included). My hope is that the group will evolve and endure as we find other topics that will bring us back together periodically.

The above quote from The Fifth Discipline reaffirms that I want to read Donald Schön's The Reflective Practitioner, a book I first learned of when I read Alistair's dissertation [PDF]. Reflective Systems Development is another interesting book that relies heavily on Schön. Schön's work has even been directly applied to extreme programming [PDF].

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