"Becoming" a Professional : an Interdisciplinary Analysis of Professional Learning / edited by Lesley Scanlon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scanlon, Lesley.

Series:

Lifelong Learning Book Series, 2730-5325 ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continuing education.

Education, Higher.

Professional education.

Vocational education.

Lifelong Learning.

Higher Education.

Professional and Vocational Education.

Local Subjects:

Lifelong Learning.

Higher Education.

Professional and Vocational Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

‘Becoming’ is used in this interdisciplinary work as an emergent, iterative concept of professional identity formation. The conceptual framework of ‘becoming’, as well as the arguments in the book are intended to encourage professionals—and those engaged in their education—to reflect on what it means to be a ‘professional’ in the twenty-first century, an era dominated by the discourses of globalisation, ‘new mangerialism’, multiculturalism and deprofessionalisation. We live in a world where not only scholars, but also a better educated client base informed by technological innovations, have issued unprecedented challenges to the traditional professional ideal. The once paradigmatic identity of the superiority of the Anglo-American professional, grounded in an exclusive knowledge-base and an altruistic ‘public-service’ principle, are no longer tenable. The book will generate dialogue about the nature of professionalism through a multidisciplinary lens in chapters on medicine, nursing and teaching and in reference to social work, the clergy and engineering. Here, becoming a professional is a lifelong, extended process that constructs an individual’s professional identity through formal education, workplace interactions and popular culture. It advocates the ‘ongoing’ modality of developing a professional self throughout one’s professional life. What emerges from this work is a concept of becoming a professional that is quite different from the isolated, rugged, individualistic approach to traditional professional practice as represented in popular culture. It is a book for the reflective professional.

Contents:

Editorial by Series Editors; David Aspin and Judith Chapman

Introduction; Lesley Scanlon

‘Becoming’ a Professional ; Lesley Scanlon

Becoming as an Appropriate Metaphor for Understanding Professional Learning; Paul Hager and Phil Hodkinson

Learning To Be – At Work; David Beckett

Higher Education and Becoming a Professional; Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren

Becoming Authentic Professionals: Learning for Authenticity; Thuy T Vu and Gloria Dall’Alba

White Coats, Handmaidens and Warrior Chiefs - the Role of Filmic Representations in Becoming a Professional; Lesley Scanlon

Becoming a Medical Professional; Alan Bleakley

Professional Practice and Doctoral Education - Becoming a Researcher; Alison Lee

Becoming a Professional Doctor; Kirsty Foster

Becoming a Professional Nurse; Jane Davey and Sandie Bredemeyer

Teacher Professional Becoming - A Practice-based, Actor-network Theory Perspective; Dianne Mulcahy

And the Conclusion for Now is …?; Lesley Scanlon

Biographies

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789400736672

9400736673

9789400713789

9400713789

OCLC:

747410925