Full Description
Exploring key issues in professional life such as how we define ourselves, how we learn as professionals, 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. Featuring contributions from leading academics and specialists, this book will be useful to those individuals who are embarking on 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.
Contents
Foreword by Professor Sir David Watson Preface Notes on contributors 1 Consciousness in transition: the experience of doctoral study by Deborah Andrews and Christine Edwards 2 Some historical perspectives on professionalism by David Crook 3 Changing modes of teacher professionalism: traditional, managerial, collaborative and democratic by Geoff Whitty 4 Performativity, privatisation, professionals and the state by Stephen J. Ball 5 Ethical issues in professional life by Ingrid Lunt 6 The micropolitics of professionalism: power and collective identities in higher education by Louise Morley 7 The challenges of widening participation for professional identities and practices by Penny Jane Burke 8 The imaginative professional by Sally Power 9 Critical incidents in professional life and learning by Bryan Cunningham 10 Critical professionalism in an age of supercomplexity by Ronald Barnett
