Professional Practice Discourse Marginalia / edited by Joy Higgs, Franziska Trede.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Higgs, Joy, editor.

Trede, Franziska, editor.

Series:

Practice, Education, Work and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVI, 268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

This is a book for practitioners, university educators, workplace learning educators, researchers and the professions. It draws together two key elements of the lives of these people: professional practice – what people do, and practice discourse – what they write and say about what they do. And, it focuses these discussions around two spaces – the core and the margins, of practice and discourse. Writing in the margins of texts has a very long history. People have always left part of themselves – their ideas, personality and reflections – in the margins of texts. In this book we have taken up the idea of such written marginalia and we have expanded it into writing into the texts of practice discourse as well as speaking and acting in the margins of professional practice. Such deliberate practice changes in marginal practice spaces and in written practice discourse provides ways of shaping and critically appraising current and future professional practice. This book provides a dialogue between two fascinating phenomena: professional practice and discourse. In the 21st century these two are facing challenges as they negotiate their contested spaces in a rapidly changing global society. They draw on strong established traditions and expectations but they cannot be complacent in these illusory stabilities. Rather they must be awake to the imperatives of their own re-invention and re-claimed relevance to today’s society and today’s professional class in the workforce. Across the chapters we explore the core spaces of professional practice discourse from the vantage point of the margins of this space, and the margin spaces as they interact with the core. Marginalia serves as an architect of destabilisation, challenge, revolution, reflection or sometimes affirmation of the central discourse space. There are five sections in the book: Section One: Professional practice discourse, Section Two: Leading the practice discourse, Section Three: Writing from inside practice, Section Four: Writing onto and into practice and Section Five: Marking trails and stimulating insights. Readers are invited to contribute to our exploration of the phenomenon and practice of professional practice discourse marginalia.

Contents:

Series introduction: Practice, Education, Work and Society

Foreword

Marginalia: Our strategy

Section 1: Professional practice discourse

Professional practice and discourse

Co-writing discourse through practice and theory

Marginalia and core discourse: Shaping discourse and practice

Section 2: Leading the practice discourse

Working in complex practice spaces: Focusing and calibrating professional effort in organisations and communities

A praxis perspective: Musings on the works of Kemmis and Wilkinson

Practice, discourse and epistemic cultures: Dominants and marginalia

Appreciating practice

Practice wisdom and wise practice: Dancing between the core and the margins of practice discourse and lived practice

The discourse on ethics and expertise in professional practice

Disturbing professional practice discourse: Re: writing practices.-Section 3: Writing from inside practice

Refocusing academia in the 21st century

Deliberate marginalia: Strengthening professional practice from the margins

Entering health practice discourse: Finding all our voices

Working through the margins: Liberating school education practice and discourse

Learning and shaping professional discourse: Journeys between the margins and the core of discipline discourse

Challenging practice discourse dichotomies: A view from alternative and orthodox practices

Changing practice discourse from inside practice: Borrowing from the arts

Through mindfulness and grace towards embodied practice

Digital marginalia

Section 4: Writing onto and into practice

Writing in marginalised voices

Changing practices through practice dialogues: Being part of an active thriving practice is more fun than you can possibly imagine

Hearing the marginalised voices

Organising, managing and changing practice: Negotiating managerial authority and professional discretion

Acting within and against hegemonic practices and discourses

Practice communities and leaders

Professional education and Indigenous Australian issues: Towards uncomfortable pedagogies

Harmonising discourse through workplace learning

Section 5: Marking trails and stimulating insights

From discourse to visioning: Eliciting future practice and marginalia

Our journey: Creating a legacy for professional practice discourse

Contributors. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789463006002

9463006001

OCLC:

954000703