Learning to be Professionals

• Main Author: DallAlba, Gloria. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education ; 4
• Subjects: Education.; Medical Education.; Education, Higher.; Education > Philosophy.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Higher Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Educational Philosophy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2608-8

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...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Acknowledgements
• Part A - Focus of the inquiry. 1. A deepening crisis of confidence in the professions. 2. What is professional practice?- Part B - Professional education as preparation. 3. Investigating preparation for professional practice. 4. Professional education as a process of becoming
• Part C - Professional ways of being. 5. Contextualising professional ways of being. 6. Interplay between traditions and being professionals. 7. Learning professional ways of being
• Part D - Implications for professional education. 8. Designing professional education: where to from here? Concluding remarks
• References
• Index.