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100			_aRatnher, Helene
245			_aThe social life of learning theory: The ideal and "real" of reflective learning
260			_c2013
300			_ap.200-209.
362			_aFeb
520			_aThere is a growing understanding that public institutions need to be proactive in not only developing their welfare services but doing so continually through various concepts of learning. This article presents an ethnographic study of a public school that aims at working strategically with organizational learning through Donald Sch�n's concept of "the reflective practitioner." Sch�n's concepts provide the school manager with a vocabulary to criticize the destructive effects of New Public Management's linear steering technologies. The study also illustrates that expectations of reflective practitioners produce new uncertainties and managerial challenges, especially in manager-employee relations. The implicationsof these are discussed. Reprodu
650			_aKnowledge management
773			_aInternational Journal of Public Administration
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