The reflective and competent practitioner a model of professional competence which seeks to harmonise the reflective practitioner and competencebased approaches

In an earlier article, published in 1996, the authors described a provisional model of professional competence which attempted to harmonise the reflective practitioner paradigm developed by Schn and now espoused by many professional education programmes with competencebased approaches. The latter included both the functional outcomes approach and the personal competence approach. Views on the composite model were sought from readers of this journal. The model was also tested as part of a programme of empirical work across 20 different professions. This paper offers a revised version of the model which takes account of the suggestions made by a significant number of respondents, as well as observations from the empirical work.