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Professional Practices - Commitment and Capability in a Changing Environment (Paperback)
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Professional Practices - Commitment and Capability in a Changing Environment (Paperback)
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There is recurrent public concern with enhancing the quality of
professional performance. What is the con-temporary understanding
of professionalism? Are the needs of professionals in various
fields being met in today's world, as what is commonly called
"continuing professional development" has become of a sizable
industry? Many books treat the professions as a homo-geneous group
and view them from an external stand-point. In Professional
Practices Tony Becher investigates the differences as well as the
similarities between and within professional groupings, and
presents the perspec-tives of insiders. One particular theme
concerns the main patterns of change in professional careers and
the spe-cific problems faced by women professionals in a largely
male-dominated environment. Brilliantly written, the book focuses
on six professions-medicine, pharmacy, law, accountancy,
architecture, and slructural engineering. The material is based on
190 interviews with a variety of members of the six professions.
Becher's book offers original and sensitive insight into the
working Ives of practitioners and an understanding of the ideas and
values they embrace. He a'gjes that their high sense of commitment
stems from a concern to enhance their individual reputations and to
maintain their collective professional status. Becher highlights re
variety of activities in which these professionals are engaged and
the reasons for their reponses to social and political pressures
from outside their fields. Above all, he seeks to demystify
professionalism and to show that professional people share with
others a wide range of universal human feelings and concerns. A
postscript raises the issue of why -Diversities are little involved
with continuing education in the professions. Practicing
professionals will benefit from this insight into how people in
their own and other professions cope with similar problems.
Becher's volume will be particularly ap-pealing to educationists,
policymakers, and social scientists interested in the subject of
professionalism, those involved in the provision of initial and
mid-career change for the orofessions, and those with a lay
interest in the topic.
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