Meaning Making: Donald Schon -Reflect ‘ON’
The more we reflect ON (consciously and therefore aware) the more we begin to confirm or question our ideas (meaning). As these meaning clusters become ingrained and strengthened they are added to our internal knowledge map. Kant described “science as organized knowledge.”
Now thinking ON action is an activity that happens after the action. It could be minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, or even decades later, to try and think about you know what was was that the best action to take, what could’ve been done differently, how does my context now at the time of reflection compare with my contacts at the time of the action. A big part of this reflection has to do with how people potentially change their ideas or change their opinions or see how their ideas or opinions have changed and that’s their actions may have changed over time, or need to change. So again a big part of Schon’s writing has to do with the fact that learning equals change.
