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Professional Learning in Changing Contexts (Hardcover, New)
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Professional Learning in Changing Contexts (Hardcover, New)
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The knowledge and decisions of professionals influence all facets
of modern life, a fact reflected by the increasing and distinct
emphasis on public accountability for what professionals know and
do. The nature of this accountability has been fundamentally
transformed in response to a changing context of market pressures,
network arrangements, declining discretion and public trust, and
public managerialism. To tackle these challenges, an important body
of research has emerged which concentrates on the material elements
and processes of professional learning, and considers how these
affect wider society. This volume presents specific pressures on
professionals' learning in different occupational contexts ranging
from public school teaching to medicine and creative industry.
These pressures are wrought by changing regulatory frameworks,
changing modes of organising, changing demands and changing
knowledge authorities in professional practice. The authors stress
the importance of understanding these relations as sociomaterial
webs through which the important moments of professional action and
decisions emerge. This approach moves us beyond accepting
'learning' as an identifiable, individualist phenomenon by
emphasising the multiplicities around professional practice
'standards' and 'quality', workarounds, responsibility, agency, and
knowledge practices. As the chapters here demonstrate,
sociomaterial perspectives raise new questions and methodologies
that can highlight what is often invisible in the sometimes messy
dynamics of professional learning, and point to new ways of
promoting and supporting professional education. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education
and Work.
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