Exploring Professionalism

by Cunningham, Bryan; Watson, David

• ISBN13: 9780854738052
• ISBN10: 0854738053
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-31
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

Some of the key issues in professional life in education are: how does a teacher define him or herself; how does she/he learn as a professional; and what impact current changes and challenges are having on the nature of professional work. This book will offer a rounded selection of perspectives on professional life, as offered by some of the UK's most distinguished scholars in the field. The book will be useful to those individuals who are embarking or already engaging in work on a professional doctorate while also appealing to a broader readership who are interested in the range of issues affecting professionals who work in education, in its most all-embracing sense.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. xviii
Consciousness in transition: the experience of doctoral study	p. 1
Some historical perspectives on professionalism	p. 10
Changing modes of teacher professionalism: traditional, managerial, collaborative and democratic	p. 28
Performativity, privatisation, professionals and the state	p. 50
Ethical issues in professional life	p. 73
The micropolitics of professionalism: power and collective identities in higher education	p. 99
The challenges of widening participation for professional identities and practices	p. 121
The imaginative professional	p. 144
Critical incidents in professional life and learning	p. 161
Critical professionalism in an age of supercomplexity	p. 190
Index	p. 209
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