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,...
Preparing professionals to meet the demands of changes in practice is a compelling issue for the development of society, professions and individual...
The subset of skilled workers among whom doctors and lawyers are counted, always known as 'the professions', has always had to adapt to change. But what challenges lie ahead for the concept of 'professionalism' itself, as the market for services becomes ever more complex, the demands for accountability more insistent, external regulation more rigid and limiting, and ethical expectations move inexorably higher? Aimed at professional practitioners, policy makers, researchers and students, Elaborating Professionalism introduces new empirical and theoretical work to the conceptual arena that will...
The subset of skilled workers among whom doctors and lawyers are counted, always known as 'the professions', has always had to adapt to change. But wh...
