First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In a range of professions, professional practice today is under threat. It is endangered, for example, by pressures of bureaucratic control, commodification, marketization, and the standardisation of practice in some professions. In these times, there is a need for deeper understandings of professional practice and how it develops through professional careers. Enabling Praxis: Challenges for education explores these questions in the context of the initial and continuing professional education of teachers. It presents a theory of the development of praxis - morally committed action oriented by...