"Neither the past nor the present stays fixed in the face of . . . reflexivity. The "immense repository" of our past encounters may be rendered salient in different ways as we review them reflexively, or may be changed by reconceptualization." [Jerome Bruner, Acts of Meaning 109-110 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990)]

"[A]ll deep thought begins and ends in the attempt to grasp whatever touches one most immediately." [Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard 98 (1959) quoted in P. Sanborn, Existentialism 21 (1968)]

"Through reflection, [the practitioner] can surface and criticize the tacit understandings that have grown up around the repetitive experiences of a specialized practice, and can make new sense of the situations of uncertainty or uniqueness which he may allow himself to experience."

"The reflective practitioner tries to discover the limits o fhis expertise through reflective conversation with the client." [Donald A. Schön, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action 61, 296 (New York: Basic Books, 1983)]

"The sociologists' task today is not only to see people as they see themselves, nor to see themselves as others see them; it is also to see themselves as they see other people. What is needed is a new and heightened self-awareness among sociologists, which would lead them to ask the same kinds of questions about themselves as they do about taxicab drivers or doctors, and to answer them in the same ways. Above all, this means that we must acquire the ingrained habit of viewing our own beliefs as we would those held by others." [Alvin Gouldner, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology 25 (1970)]

Problem Solving Through Reflective Practice

Reflection as a Mode of Learning

Thinking: Philosophical Roots of an Alternative Visions

Becoming Reflective Practitioners

The Making of a Mediator: Artistry, Reflection, and Interactive Process

Donald A. Schön, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (New York: Basic Books, 1983)

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