Full Description
At the center of this book is the complex and perplexing question of how to design professional preparation programs, organizational management practices, public policy systems and robust professional associations committed to and capable of, maintaining confidence, trust and the other hallmarks of responsible professionalism. To do this, we need to rebuild our understanding of professional responsibility from the ground up. We describe how individuals might be prepared to engage in responsible professional service delivery, examine promising options for the reform of professional service systems and finally, outline a reform strategy for improving practice in education and medicine - two essential public services. The nexus of the reform problem in professionalism is establishing a more robust and effective working relationship between teachers and their students; between health care professionals and their patients and between educators and health professionals. Professionalism means acceptance of professional responsibility for student and patient outcomes — not just acceptance of responsibility for technical expertise, but commitment to the social norms of the profession, including trustworthiness and responsibility for client wellbeing. In the past, it may have been sufficient to assume that adequate knowledge can be shaped into standards of professional practice. Today, it is clear that we must take careful account of the ways in which practicing professionals develop, internalize and sustain professionalism during their training, along with the ways in which this commitment to professionalism may be undermined by the regulatory, fiscal, technological, political and emotional incentive systems that impinge on professional workplaces and professional employment systems.
Contents
A Brief Introduction to the Problem of Professional Responsibility.- Dilemmas of Educational Practice: Global Competition and Achievement Gaps.- Challenges Facing the Medical Profession in the US.- Professional Responsibility: The Problem and Why It Needs Attention.- How Institutional Contexts Shape Professional Responsibility.- Professional Practice in Complex Organizations.- Erecting the Pipeline for Socially Responsible Physicians.- How Linking University Research to School Needs Influences Scholars and Schools.- Cultural Induction: Professionalism's Life or Death Struggle.- Creating Incentives to Support Professional Responsibility.- Getting Task Structures and Institutional Designs Right.- Educator Professional Responsibility for Family Health.- Professional Ethics and Virtue Ethics in Community Medical Practice.- The Role of Graduate Schools of Education in Training Autism Professionals to Work with Diverse Families.- Preparing Teachers as Momentum Builds for Dual-Language Classrooms.- Policy, Structural, Role and Knowledge Barriers to Best Practice in School Psychology.- Whither Collaboration? The Capacity and Will to Integrate Professional Services.- Collaborative Community in Schools.- Summarizing the Lessons, Shaping a Blueprint.
