What does professional responsibility entail in an increasingly
insecure, unpredictable and de-regulated world? This is the core
question addressed in this text. The point of departure for the
various contributions is that professional responsibility is a way
of being in the world that includes a particular mandate to behave
in a manner consistent with moral and societal obligations as a
professional. Increasingly, however, there is a lack of consensus
as to what such mandates imply, and even more dissensus as to what
appropriate exercise of responsibility entails. One of the
distinctive features of this book is the manner in which it
combines normative and empirical dimensions. It moves beyond
dualistic perspectives to create a more inclusive conversation on
professional responsibility.
In the face of increasing complexity of professional work,
professional responsibility remains open to further development.
The book signals direction for the development of professional
responsibility, and while seeking to give direction to ongoing
deliberations avoids the pitfalls of performativity.
The chapters are grounded in a variety of disciplinary
perspectives and traverse various professional boundaries in a
self-reflexive manner to create more inclusive, transformative and
generative narratives on professional responsibility. This is
achieved by:
- Focusing on normative dimensions of professional work and
combining these with a focus on empirical aspects of professional
practice in a variety of setting, and
- Recognising the inevitable tensions between personal trust and
responsibility, and largely depersonalised policies and strategies
of quality control when normative and empirical aspects of
professional responsibility are situated within their policy
environments.
The concluding narrative moves beyond deconstruction, complexity
and critique of these considerations to a construction of new
imagined horizons of professional responsibility from theoretical,
conceptual and practical perspectives. This text sets out to
transform professional responsibility through a re-configuration of
its constituent elements in imaginative and creative ways and by
indicating the real world import of re-charting the field."
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