Blink and Reflective Practitoner - an initial comment

As I quickly read through the first few chapters of Blink and its story about the not-so-right statue, and how months of technical analyses could not detect the fraud that a few experts felt the moment they set their eyes on the artifact, I saw the similarities between what Gladwell is writing about the unconscious adaptive and Donald Schon's notion of reflection-in-action. It makes me wonder why we are relearning something that has been said, mentioned, debated and researched by the academic world 20 years ago. It is like this notion is totally new. But it is not. Perhaps it is the failure of academics to write best sellers of theoretical concepts which gives the impression that it is something novel. Perhaps we need more Gladwells and Godins in academic writings to turn important theoretical contructs that might have huge practical implications to education.