Overview
- Critically examines the way we currently educate for the professions
- Proposes a fresh, innovative approach to educating for professional practice
- Provides a scholarly, well-grounded account for enhancing professional education
- Closely interweaves theory and empirical material on learning to be professionals
- Timely, given increasing interest in educating for the professions
Part of the book series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education (ICPE, volume 4)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Focus of the Inquiry
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Professional Education as Preparation
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Front Matter
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Professional Ways of Being
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Part IV Implications for Professional Education
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Back Matter
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About this book
Preparing professionals to meet the demands of changes in practice is a compelling issue for the development of society, professions and individual professionals. A key tenet of this book is that we currently prepare professionals for the world of work in ways that are generally limited in scope and inadequate for addressing contemporary professional practice. The book critically investigates professional education programmes and the assumptions upon which they are based. It argues for an ontological turn in which professional education attends not only to what students know and can do, but also who they are becoming as professionals. In a scholarly, well-grounded account, the book closely interweaves theory and empirical material on learning to be professionals. It provides a fresh, innovative approach to designing professional education programmes, as well as to research about this important enterprise. This book makes a timely, insightful contribution to debate about educating for the professions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning to be Professionals
Authors: Gloria Dall’Alba
Series Title: Innovation and Change in Professional Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2608-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2607-1Published: 11 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3673-3Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2608-8Published: 07 August 2009
Series ISSN: 1572-1957
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9957
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 160
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Higher Education, Learning & Instruction, Medical Education, Educational Philosophy