Knowledge Expertise And The Professions

Author : Michael F. D. Young,Johan Muller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315883082

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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.

Author : Michael Young,Johan Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134683925

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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.

Author : Michael Young,Johan Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134683857

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Knowledge, Expertise and the Professions by Michael Young,Johan Muller Pdf

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.

Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789048139699

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Being an Expert Professional Practitioner by Anne Edwards Pdf

Professionals deal with complex problems which require working with the expertise of others, but being able to collaborate resourcefully with others is an additional form of expertise. This book draws on a series of research studies to explain what is involved in the new concept of working relationally across practices. It demonstrates how spending time building common knowledge between different professions aids collaboration. The core concept is relational agency, which can arise between practitioners who work together on a complex task: whether reconfiguring the trajectory of a vulnerable child or developing a piece of computer software. Common knowledge, which captures the motives and values of each profession, is essential for the exercise of relational agency and contributing to and working with the common knowledge of what matters for each profession is a new form of relational expertise. The book is based on a wide body of field research including the author’s own. It tackles how to research expert practices using Vygotskian perspectives, and demonstrates how Cultural Historical and Activity Theory approaches contribute to how we understand learning, practices and organisations.

Author : D.W. Livingstone,Tracey L. Adams,Peter Sawchuk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004463073

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Professional Power and Skill Use in the 'Knowledge Economy' by D.W. Livingstone,Tracey L. Adams,Peter Sawchuk Pdf

This is the first analysis of professional classes, their differing job control and skill utilization. Professional employees especially face declining job control, diminishing use of skills and increasing barriers to continuing learning. The book is an original guide for further studies on professional classes, job design, and training.

Author : Nico Stehr,Reiner Grundmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136816772

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Experts by Nico Stehr,Reiner Grundmann Pdf

In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society, and claim that the growing spectrum of knowledge-based occupations has led to the pluralisation of expertise. As decision makers in organizations and private citizens, for various reasons, increasingly seek advice from experts, the authors examine the nature of expert activity, and suggest that the role of experts needs to be distinguised from other roles such as professionals, scientists, or intellectuals. Experts, they argue, perform knowledge based activities that mediate between the context of knowledge creation and application. Existing approaches tend to restrict the role of the expert to scientists, or to conflate the roles of professionals with experts. In avoiding such restrictions, this book sets out a framework to understanding the growing role of expertise in a better way. Experts provides thought-provoking discussion that will be of interest to postgraduate students and academics working within the fields of social theory, knowledge, and consumption.

Author : Richard Susskind,Richard Süsskind,Daniel Susskind
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780198841890

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The Future of the Professions by Richard Susskind,Richard Süsskind,Daniel Susskind Pdf

With a new preface outlining the most recent critical developments, this updated edtion of The Future of the Professions predicts how technology will transform the work of doctors, teachers, architects, lawyers, and many others in the 21st century, and introduces the people and systems that may replace them.

Author : Alexander Styhre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Expertise
ISBN : 100565669X

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Knowledge Sharing in Professions by Alexander Styhre Pdf

Author : K. Anders Ericsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521518468

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Development of Professional Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson Pdf

Professionals such as medical doctors, aeroplane pilots, lawyers, and technical specialists find that some of their peers have reached high levels of achievement that are difficult to measure objectively. In order to understand to what extent it is possible to learn from these expert performers for the purpose of helping others improve their performance, we first need to reproduce and measure this performance. This book is designed to provide the first comprehensive overview of research on the acquisition and training of professional performance as measured by objective methods rather than by subjective ratings by supervisors. In this collection of articles, the world's foremost experts discuss methods for assessing the experts' knowledge and review our knowledge on how we can measure professional performance and design training environments that permit beginning and experienced professionals to develop and maintain their high levels of performance, using examples from a wide range of professional domains.

Author : Joy Higgs,Angie Titchen
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann Medical
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0750646888

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Practice Knowledge and Expertise in the Health Professions by Joy Higgs,Angie Titchen Pdf

Forlagets beskrivelse: Informative, analytical and stimulating, this book examines the relationship between professional knowledge and clinical practice.Biography

Author : Michael Eraut
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0750703318

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Developing Professional Knowledge and Competence by Michael Eraut Pdf

This volume analyzes different types of knowledge and know-how used by practising professionals in their work and how these different kinds of knowledge are acquired by a combination of learning from books, learning from people and learning from personal experience.; Drawing on various examples, problems addressed include the way theory changes and is personalized in practice, and how individuals form generalizations out of their practice. Eraut considers the meaning of client-centredness and its implications, and to what extent professional knowledge is based on intuition, understanding and learning. He considers the issue of competence versus knowledge and the effect of lifelong learning on the quality of practice.

Author : Matthias Pilz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319478562

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Vocational Education and Training in Times of Economic Crisis by Matthias Pilz Pdf

This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET). Revealing how youth in transition is affected by economic crises, it provides essential insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the various systems and prospects of VET in contexts ranging from North America to Europe, (e.g. Spain, Germany or the UK) to Asia (such as China, Thailand and India). Though each country examined in this volume is affected by the economic crisis in a different way, the effects are especially apparent for the young generation. In many countries the youth unemployment rate is still very high and the job perspectives for young people are often limited at best. The contributions in this volume demonstrate that VET alone cannot solve these problems, but can be used to support a smooth transition from school to work. If the quality of VET is high and the status and job expectations are good, VET can help to fill the skills gap, especially at the intermediate skill level. Furthermore, VET can also offer a realistic alternative to the university track for young people in many countries.

Author : Sally Hardy,Angie Titchen,Brendan McCormack,Kim Manley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1444316362

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Revealing Nursing Expertise Through Practitioner Inquiry by Sally Hardy,Angie Titchen,Brendan McCormack,Kim Manley Pdf

Revealing Nursing Expertise Through Practitioner Inquiry explores and reveals the often hidden workings of ‘expert practitioners’. It provides valuable insights into developing practice expertise and how expert nursing practice is a key influence on health care practice. The authors present evidence around the interconnected components needed to facilitate, support and enable nurses in their practice settings through a transformational framework used to further develop and refine nursing practice expertise. Part 1 explores the current context of practice expertise and the process of practitioner inquiry. Part 2 examinplores the evidence for practice expertise, using exemplars from the extensive ‘Expertise in Practice Project’. This includes perspectives of practitioners developing their expertise in diverse areas of clinical practice as well as of from those who facilitate practitioners to develop and articulate their practice expertise. Part 3 explores the development of portfolios of evidence that demonstrate expertise, examines models and approaches to facilitation and provides a toolkit of resources. Revealing Nursing Expertise Through Practitioner Inquiry provides important evidence to support the claim that expert nurses change patients’ worlds as well as transforming practice, workplace performance and organisational wide service developments. Provides a framework for exploring and developing nursing expertise Enables nurses to articulate their expertise and examine their own practice Offers practical guidance on facilitating inquiry based practitioners Draws on results of the RCN Expertise in Practice project Written collaboratively by practitioners, practice developers and nurse academics

Author : Graham Cheetham,G. E. Chivers
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781008477

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Professions, Competence and Informal Learning by Graham Cheetham,G. E. Chivers Pdf

This book takes a fresh look at professions - their history and sociology, and at the nature both of professional practice and professional competence. It provides practical advice to professional developers on programme design as well as tips for individual professionals on how to exploit their informal learning opportunities.

Author : Christopher Winch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441180674

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Dimensions of Expertise by Christopher Winch Pdf

A detailed philosophical debate on the nature of expertise is long overdue and Dimensions of Expertise opens up that debate. Christopher Winch firstly explores an account of know-how, derived primarily from the pioneering work of Gilbert Ryle, and moves on to relate this epistemological debate to discussions concerning the nature of expertise in vocational and professional education, including attempts to provide a theory of expertise.