The only constant is change....

From reading Donald Schon's piece on"The Crisis of Confidence in Professional Knowledge"a second time, I understand that he advocates a need for professionals to use reflective practice in order to deal with change. According to Schon, professionals themselves have identified the weakness of depending solely on professional knowledge; "On the whole, their assessment is that professional knowledge is mismatched to the changing characteristic of the situations of practice - the complexity, uncertainty, instability, uniqueness, and value conflicts which are increasingly perceived as central to the world of professional practice."

In my opinion the world is always changing, and whatever we gain as professional knowledge at University will never prepare us for everything that we will meet in practice. It makes sense that professionals should be prepared to be considering the effectiveness of their performance with regard to their clients, just as businesses need to be constantly watching the patterns of the market for evidence of change so that they can modify their behaviour to match market trends. As people, are we not always trying to improve ourselves and looking for ways in which to do it?