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four activities (naming, framing, moving and reflecting) and their relations: the ‘mechanism of reflective practice’. The designers start by naming the relevant issues in the design situation, framing the problem in a certain way, making moves towards a solution, and reflecting on those moves and the current frame.

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4 Activities

*** Naming**

*** Framing**

*** Moving**

*** Reflecting**

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explicit reflection that guides the development of one’s knowing-in- action habits.  This he calls reflection-in-action.

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Schon’s theory is based on a constructionist view of human perception and thought processes: through the execution of ‘move-testing experiments’ (involving action and reflection), a designer is actively constructing a view of the world based on his/her experiences.

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limit

to improve design theory and education systematically we need to make a transition from this pure description to prescription. We need to further analyze and discuss the general patterns that occur in the described team

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new description method, based on Schon’s theory of reflective practice

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This method was tested by applying it in the description of the activities of two design teams. The description method proves to be very useful, in that it allows a concise description of a design project in which the elements vital to the understanding of the design progress are conserved

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in-depth analysis of team design behaviour.

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problematic

[...] implicit knowledge cannot be described within the prevalent methodological paradigm of technical rationality.

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implicit ‘knowing-in-action’ is difficult to describe

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result

Comparing the obtained descriptions of these two teams designing reveals different patterns of behaviour

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