Summary:

This book is founded on the idea that ‘becoming’ is the most useful
defining concept for a new ‘professional’ class whose members
understand that development in their working lives is an open-ended,
lifelong process of refinement and learning.In a world where being a
‘professional’ is an increasingly indistinct notion and where better
education and technology are challenging ‘professional’ norms, it is
imperative that we no longer think in terms of an exclusive,
‘Anglo-American’, knowledge-rich class of workers. Exploring the
implications of this insight for professions including nursing,
teaching, social work, engineering and the clergy, this volume aims
to encourage informed debate on what it means to be a ‘professional’
in this globalised 21st century.The book argues that ‘becoming’ a
professional is a lifelong process in which individual professional
identities are constructed through formal education, workplace
interactions and popular culture. The book advocates the
‘ongoingness’ of developing a professional self throughout one’s
professional life. What emerges is a concept of becoming a
professional different from the isolated, rugged, individualistic
approach to traditional professional practice as represented in
popular culture. It is a book for the reflective professional.

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Dewey Class: 378 -- Higher education

Book Details:

Physical Description: 271 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2011-08-28

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