Overview
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Colin Myers
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School of Computer Science and Information Systems Engineering, University of Westminster, London, UK
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Tracy Hall
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School of Computer Science and Information Systems Engineering, University of Westminster, London, UK
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Dave Pitt
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Worldwide Information Systems, NCR, London, UK
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 7-16
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Professional Bodies
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 21-31
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 32-39
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 40-42
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 43-47
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 48-59
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 60-71
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 72-77
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Accountability
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 83-91
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 92-99
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 100-106
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 107-112
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 113-123
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 124-128
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 129-140
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Equal Opportunities
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Front Matter
Pages 141-142
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- Colin Myers, Tracy Hall, Dave Pitt
Pages 143-147
About this book
You might expect that a person invited to contribute a foreword to a book on the 1 subject of professionalism would himself be a professional of exemplary standing. I am gladdened by that thought, but also disquieted. The disquieting part of it is that if I am a professional, I must be a professional something, but what? As someone who has tried his best for the last thirty years to avoid doing anything twice, I lack one of the most important characteristics of a professional, the dedicated and persistent pursuit of a single direction. For the purposes of this foreword, it would be handy if I could think of myself as a professional abstractor. That would allow me to offer up a few useful abstractions about professionalism, patterns that might illuminate the essays that follow. I shall try to do this by proposing three successively more complex models of professionalism, ending up with one that is discomfortingly soft, but still, the best approximation I can make of what the word means to me. The first of these models I shall designate Model Zero. I intend a pejorative sense to this name, since the attitude represented by Model Zero is retrograde and offensive ... but nonetheless common. In this model, the word "professionalism" is a simple surrogate for compliant uniformity.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Computer Science and Information Systems Engineering, University of Westminster, London, UK
Colin Myers,
Tracy Hall
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Worldwide Information Systems, NCR, London, UK
Dave Pitt
