TEACHING PRACTICE

Planning is a way of acting. People learn to plan by practicing planni ng. Yet university planning programs give predominant attention to cla ssroom activity. A cultural division between ''academic'' and ''practi ce'' faculty and classes gives higher status and greater influence to academic courses emphasizing research and analysis. Thus university pr ograms tacitly teach chat planning is the same as research. Despite rh etoric about. ''integrating academics and practice,'' programs give li ttle attention to that challenge. Reforming planning education to teac h students to plan requires a change in the culture of planning progra ms that dissolves differences between ''academic'' and ''practice'' to focus on questions of practice.