Elaborating Professionalism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Challenging Professionalism

   • Clive Kanes

   Pages 1-15

3. On the Relationship Between Problem-Solving Skills and Professional Practice

   • Kevin W. Eva

   Pages 17-34

4. A Lens on Literacy: Workplace Competence and Professional Practice

   • Jean Searle

   Pages 35-57

5. Revisiting Informal and Incidental Learning as a Vehicle for Professional Learning and Development

   • Victoria J. Marsick, Karen E. Watkins, Barbara Lovin

   Pages 59-76

6. Making It Safe: The Effects of Leader Inclusiveness and Professional Status on Psychological Safety and Improvement Efforts in Health Care Teams

   • Ingrid M. Nembhard, Amy C. Edmondson

   Pages 77-105

7. Making Sense of Curriculum Innovation and Mathematics Teacher Identity

   • Candia Morgan

   Pages 107-122

8. Working with Learner Contributions: A Key Dimension of Professional Practice

   • Karin Brodie

   Pages 123-138

9. What Is Professional Practice? Recognising and Respecting Diversity in Understandings of Practice

   • Stephen Kemmis

   Pages 139-165

10. An Approach to Notions of Subject Position and Discourse in Activity Theory

    • Harry Daniels

    Pages 167-182

11. Studies in the Theory and Practice of Professionalism: Ways Forward

    • Clive Kanes

    Pages 183-198

12. Back Matter

    Pages 199-207

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What are the future possibilities for the standing of professional practice as it faces growingly problematic markets for services, complex demands for managerial accountability and control, and problematic circumstances and expectations in its ethical and self-regulative governance? New sources of inspiration may be needed if professionalism is to be either a viable or desirable form for the social organisation of work in the coming years of potentially deep economic and social change. Set in the UK, South Africa, Australia and the USA, the empirical studies included elaborate problematic situations of professional practice concerning issues of identity and knowledge. The theoretical studies explore the notion of generic processes; elaborate the plurality of notions of professional practice; theorise the hybridisation witnessed in inter-professional and cross-disciplinary team work; and outline new theoretical departures relating to these. Elaborating professionalism also raises important methodological issues relating to professionalism as ethical practice. The book offers valuable resources to enrich practice, and provokes thought and new ideas about professionalism.

• accountability
• activity theory
• adult education
• communities
• external control
• governance
• hibridity
• human resource development
• learning theories
• occupations
• organisational psychology
• philosophy
• policy makers
• professional education
• professional identity
• professional knowledge
• professional practice
• professional practitioners
• professionalism
• psychology

• Dept. Education & Professional Studies, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

  Clive Kanes

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