Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 11.965 (January (IAP) 2007) 
• Course Title:
• Reflective Practice: An Approach for Expanding Your Learning Frontiers 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Urban Studies and Planning 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Ceasar McDowell
  Sebastiao Ferreira
  
  Teaching Assistant:
  Claudia Canepa
   
• Course Introduction:
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  11.965 Reflective Practice: An Approach for Expanding Your Learning Frontiers
  
  
  
  

  January (IAP) 2007

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a full set of presentations and discussion notes in the lecture notes section, as well as a list of selected readings relevant to the ideas of reflective practice.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  The course is an introduction to the approach of Reflective Practice developed by Donald Schön. It is an approach that enables professionals to understand how they use their knowledge in practical situations and how they can combine practice and learning in a more effective way. Through greater awareness of how they deploy their knowledge in practical situations, professionals can increase their capacities of learning in a more timely way. Understanding how they frame situations and ideas helps professionals to achieve greater flexibility and increase their capacity of conceptual innovation.

  The objective of the course is to introduce students to the approach and methods of reflective practice by raising their awareness about their own cognitive resources and how they use them in their practice. The course will introduce theories of learning, knowledge generation, framing and reframing, theories of action, reflection-in-practice, and conceptual innovation, and provide students with opportunities to experiment with these theories in real life through practical exercises in which they reflect on real situations that they have faced in their past professional experience. Through these practical exercises, students will have the opportunity to reflect on their thinking capacities in the context of their practice.

  
  
  

  Special Features

  
  
  

  • Complete video lectures

  
  
  

  Technical Requirements

  
  
  

  Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .rm.