Imagined at their best, how might professions contribute most
effectively to their local and global communities, and how could
higher education support graduates/future professionals in making
this contribution? The answer proposed in this book is to educate
students for 'civic-mindedness', an overarching professional
capability grounded in certain dispositions and qualities, ideals,
types of knowledge and political emotions. 'Civic-mindedness', and
its internal counterpart, the practitioner's self-cultivation, give
rise to an engagement with professional practice that is authentic,
civic and democratic. The tension between responsiveness or regard
for others and regard for self is overcome by recognising that
authentic professional identities are constructed through practices
around shared purposes and ideals. Drawing on a wide range of
theorists including Dewey, Arendt, and Nussbaum, professions are
envisaged to play a vital role. Primarily professions support
society's well-being by ensuring access to public goods, such as
local and global justice, access to information, health, education,
safety, housing, the beauty and sustaining power of the ecological
environment, among others. Yet professions also protect the
fundamental good of citizen participation in free deliberation and
decision-making on issues affecting their lives. The book concludes
with a vision of higher education that is transformative of
graduates/professionals, pedagogies, professional practices and
communities. Issues of increasing social awareness are a key
concern for anyone involved in teaching professionals and this
book, which builds best practice around a sound theoretical and
philosophical framework, will prove both thought-provoking and
practical in application.
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