Donald A. Schon's scientific contributions
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... Managerial competencies are the knowledge, abilities, and behaviors that distinguish a leader or manager in an organization and enable them to accomplish their jobs effectively (Armstrong, 2006). Such competencies are a person's fundamental traits that contribute to or cause superior job performance (Boyatzis, 1993), and they can be quantified in terms of skills, knowledge, and conduct (Walker, 2005). ...
... Interestingly, one thing that research on teacher cognition has established beyond reasonable doubt is that all teachers also have theories (Borg, 2006), either explicit ones, or the implicit "theories in use" that govern our actions (Argyris & Schön, 1974). We have theories of learning, theories of teaching, theories of the relationship between these and everything in between. ...
... 8 However, since the publication "To Err is Human": Building a safer health system 6 , it remains a concern that healthcare associated errors cannot be abolished and therefore the focus is on decreasing its impact 8,9,10,11,12 Escalating mindfulness about this issue has focused on identifying and amending futile dysfunctional systems to encourage patient safety, with approaches to safety being directed at entire organisations. Studying the rudimentary causes of error and near misses is regarded as central for fostering both 'single loop' learning, that is, correcting problems within existing structures and processes and the less common 'double loop' learning, which questions assumptions and goals, reconfigures structures, and processes 13 Identifying and addressing futile dysfunctional systems are recognized as priorities 13 Dr. Lucian Leape's article, "Error in Medicine," introduced the concept of systems rather than individual-based failures as the cause of medical errors and he examined the outcomes of errors on the individuals who made them. ...
