Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts

by Higgs, Joy; Titchen, Angie

• ISBN13: 9780632059331
• ISBN10: 0632059338
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Society is rapidly changing its expectations of professionals in all arenas. In this book we focus on changing patterns of professional practice in health, education and the creative arts. In each of these areas professional practice care is undergoing major reform in a complex and rapidly changing environment. This multi-authored text explores professional practice in four key dimensions: doing, knowing, being and becoming. These concepts have been chosen to represent professional practice as much more than applying learned knowledge in practice situations. The authors present professional practice as a lived and dynamic experience as well as a process, a service for (and with) others, and a way of being and behaving. The text explores the essential unity of knowledge and practice, through discourse, narrative, imagery and critical debate. This is a book for all those seeking to learn and to improve practice.

Author Biography

Joy Higgs is the editor of Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts, published by Wiley.

Angie Titchen is the editor of Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	v
Preface	viii
Acknowledgements	xi
Part One Introduction
Framing Professional Practice: Knowing and Doing in Context	3	(13)
Joy Higgs
Angie Titchen
Doing, Knowing, Being and Becoming: the Nature of Professional Practice	16	(13)
Robyn Ewing
David Smith
Our Collaborative Inquiry	29	(20)
Joy Higgs
Part Two Dimensions of Professional Practice
Practising Without Certainty: Providing Health Care in an Uncertain World	49	(13)
Colleen Mullavey-O'Byrne
Sandra West
The Meaning(s) of Uncertainty in Treatment Decision-making	62	(10)
Cathy Charles
Finding the Fifth Player: Artistry in Professional Practice	72	(18)
Lee Andresen
Ian Fredericks
Embodying Knowledges: Challenging the Theory/Practice Divide	90	(13)
Debbie Horsfall
Hilary Byrne-Armstrong
Rod Rothwell
Exploring Relationships in Health Care Practice	103	(11)
Dawn Best
Rosemary Cant
Susan Ryan
Technology and the Depersonalisation of Knowledge and Practice	114	(11)
Charles Higgs
The Research Sensitive Practitioner	125	(11)
Anne Cusick
The Practice Sensitive Researcher	136	(13)
Dorothy Scott
Part Three Journeying in Professional Practice
Using Autobiographical Narrative and Reflection to Link Personal and Professional Domains	149	(12)
Sally Denshire
Susan Ryan
Students and Educators Learning Within Relationships	161	(14)
Joy Goodfellow
Lindy McAlliste
Dawn Best
Gillian Webb
Dawn Fredericks
Becoming in Professional Practice: an Exemplar	175	(10)
Robyn Ewing
David Smith
Transforming Practice	185	(14)
Angie Titchen
Jim Butler
Robert Kay
Articulating Practice	199	(13)
Jim Butler
Robert Kay
Angie Titchen
Knowledge and Practice in the Education of Health and Human Service Professionals	212	(15)
Fran Everingham
Jude Irwin
Parallel Journeys in Professional Practice	227	(11)
Sue Radovich
Joy Higgs
Developing Creative Arts Expertise	238	(13)
Joy Higgs
Ian Maxwell
Ian Fredericks
Lyn Spence
Weaving the Body, the Creative Unconscious, Imagination and the Arts into Practice Development	251	(16)
Emma Coats
Part Four Reflections
Professional Practice: Walking Alone with Others	267	(6)
Joy Higgs
Angie Titchen
Towards Professional Artistry and Creativity in Practice	273	(18)
Angie Titchen
Joy Higgs
Index	291