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Theory in practice : increasing professional effectiveness / Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series | Jossey-Bass management series | Jossey-Bass classicsPublication details: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1974 (1992 printing)Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxiv, 224 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1555424465
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.013 ARG
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Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 378.013 ARG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000371378
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"This book is a landmark in two fields. It is a practical guide tothe reform of professional education. It is also a beacon totheoretical thinking about human organizations, about theirinterdepAndence with the social structure of the professions, andabout theory in practice."
-- Journal of Higher Education

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Perface
  • 1 Theory
  • 1 Theories of Action
  • 2 Evaluating Theories of Action
  • 2 Action
  • 3 Diagnosing Theories-in-Use
  • 4 Model I
  • 5 Model II
  • 6 Transition from Model I to Model II
  • 7 Learining Model-II Behavior
  • 3 Practice
  • 8 Issues in Professional Education
  • 9 Implications for Professional Competence and Practice
  • 10 Redesigning Professional Education
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Chris Argyris was born in 1923. He holds an A.B in psychology from Clark University, an M.A. in psychology and economics from Kansas University, and a Ph.D in organizational behavior from Cornell University. He has taught at Yale University and at Harvard, where he currently is the James Bryand Conent professor in the graduate schools of business administration and education.

Argyris has written more than 20 books that aspire to enable readers to create organizations and deal with management and the changing face of the corporate world. Organizational Learning II : Theory, Method and Practice, Overcoming Organizational Defenses, and Integrating the Individual and the Organization are a few of his more notable titles.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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