
Educating Professionals
Responding to New Expectations for Competence and Accountability
Jossey-Bass (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 1993
Book
Hardback
403 pages
978-1-55542-523-4 (ISBN)
Description
This in-depth examination of how to educate professionals for the future identifies the social and political forces that will affect the roles of professionals and change the definitions of professional skill. It shows how educating professionals for the twenty-first century will ultimately require stronger bonds between educational systems and our systems of practice--including more accurate measures of competence and a more integrated system of continuing professional education.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
806 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55542-523-4 (9781555425234)
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Persons
LYNN CURRY is principal and founder of Curry Adams &Associates, Inc. She has worked with educators, regulators, andassociations of a range of professions, including medicine,nursing, law, social work, and rehabilitation therapies.
JON F. WERGIN is professor of education at VirginiaCommonwealth University. From 1989 to 1991 he was vice-presidentfor Division I, Education in the Professions of the AmericanEducational Research Association.
JON F. WERGIN is professor of education at VirginiaCommonwealth University. From 1989 to 1991 he was vice-presidentfor Division I, Education in the Professions of the AmericanEducational Research Association.
Content
Part One: TrAnds and Forces Reshaping Professional Practice.
Part Two: Meeting New Requirements Through ProfessionalEducation.
Part Three: Professional Education and Practice in LifelongPartnership.
Part Two: Meeting New Requirements Through ProfessionalEducation.
Part Three: Professional Education and Practice in LifelongPartnership.