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Knowledge, Expertise and the Professions (Hardcover)
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Knowledge, Expertise and the Professions (Hardcover)
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It has long been recognised that specialised knowledge is at the
core of what distinguishes professions from other occupations. The
privileged status of professions in most countries, however,
together with their claims to autonomy and access to specialised
knowledge, is being increasingly challenged both by market
pressures and by new instruments of accountability and regulation.
Established and emerging professions are increasingly seen as
either the solution, or as sources of conservatism and resistance
to change in western economies, and recent developments in
professional education draw on a competence model which emphasises
what newly qualified members of a profession 'can do' rather than
what 'they know'. This book applies the disciplines of the
sociology of knowledge and epistemology to the question of
professional knowledge. What is this knowledge? It goes beyond
traditional debates between 'knowing how' and 'knowing that', and
'theory' and 'practice'. The chapters cover a wide range of issues,
from discussions of the threats to the knowledge base of
established professions including engineers and architects, to the
fraught situations faced by occupations whose fragile knowledge
base and professional status is increasingly challenged by new
forms of control. While recognising that graduates seeking
employment as members of a profession need to show their
capabilities, the book argues for reversing the trend that blurs or
collapses the skill/knowledge distinction. If professions are to
have a future then specialised knowledge is going to be more
important than ever before. Knowledge, Expertise and the
Professions will be key reading for students, researchers and
academics in the fields of professional expertise, further
education, higher education, the sociology of education, and the
sociology of the professions.
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