Planning Theory· 2012Q1
On the theory and practice of critical pragmatism: Deliberative practice and creative negotiations
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Critical pragmatism offers a framework to enhance both academic planning theory and practical planning, building on Donald Schön's work by emphasizing outcomes, institutional design, power dynamics, and reconstructing possibilities in complex, multi-party problems.
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Key points
- Critical pragmatism bridges academic planning theory and practical application.
- It builds upon and politicizes Donald Schön's work on reflective practice.
- The framework emphasizes critical thinking about outcomes, processes, institutional design, power, and performance.
- It aims to help practitioners navigate complex problems characterized by distrust, anger, and inequality.
- Critical pragmatism focuses on reconstructing possibilities in challenging planning scenarios.
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Abstract
Critical pragmatism provides a line of analysis and imagination that might contribute both to academic planning theory and to engaged planning practices as well. To do so, it must build upon, and develop more politically, Donald Schön’s seminal work on reflective practice. It must help students of planning think critically about outcomes as well as processes, about institutional and process designs, about power and performance. It must resonate experientially with perceptions of change-oriented practitioners facing complex multi-party “problems” characterized by distrust, anger, strategic behavior, poor information, and inequalities of power. Not least of all, a critical pragmatism must—and can—help students of planning reconstruct possibilities where others might initially perceive or presume impossibilities.
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