Overview
- First comprehensive conceptual guide to exploring questions of the body in professional practice
- Charts significant new territory while drawing on a rich and well-developed series of frameworks relating to bodies and embodiment
- Provides a powerful platform for rethinking what it means to be, learn, and practise as a professional
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Professional and Practice-based Learning (PPBL, volume 11)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introducing the Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education
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Thinking with the Body in Professional Practice
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The Body in Question in Health Professional Education and Practice
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Front Matter
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Concluding Reflections
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About this book
The body matters, in practice. How then might we think about the body in our work in and on professional practice, learning and education? What value is there in realising and articulating the notion of the professional practitioner as crucially embodied? Beyond that, what of conceiving of the professional practice field itself as a living corporate body? How is the body implicated in understanding and researching professional practice, learning and education?
Body/Practice is an extensive volume dedicated to exploring these and related questions, philosophically and empirically. It constitutes a rare but much needed reframing of scholarship relating to professional practice and its relation with professional learning and professional education more generally. It takes bodies seriously, developing theoretical frameworks, offering detailed analyses from empirical studies, and opening up questions of representation.
The book is organized into fourparts: I. ‘Introducing the Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education’; II. ‘Thinking with the Body in Professional Practice’; III. ‘The Body in Question in Health Professional Education and Practice’; IV. ‘Concluding Reflections’. It brings together researchers from a range of disciplinary and professional practice fields, including particular reference to Health and Education. Across fifteen chapters, the authors explore a broad range of issues and challenges with regard to corporeality, practice theory and philosophy, and professional education, providing an innovative, coherent and richly informed account of what it means to bring the body back in, with regard to professional education and beyond.Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education
Book Subtitle: Body/Practice
Editors: Bill Green, Nick Hopwood
Series Title: Professional and Practice-based Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00140-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00139-5Published: 04 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37517-5Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00140-1Published: 14 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2210-5549
Series E-ISSN: 2210-5557
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 265
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Learning & Instruction