Pathways to “Involved Professionalism”: Making Processes of Professional Acculturation Intentional and Transparent

Pathways to "Involved Professionalism": Making Processes of Professional Acculturation Intentional and Transparent.

Context - An increase in managerialism and a decrease in trust of the professions have challenged traditional concepts of professionalism. The market model of professionalism espoused by some critics also poses problems for professions, professionals and recipients of professional services. Professional development is now an important component of medical curricula. We believe professionalism i...

The Concept of Professionalism: Professional Work, Professional Practice and Learning

S. Billett et al. (eds.), International Handbook of Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning, Springer International Handbooks of Education, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8902-8_2, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Abstract For a long time, the sociological analysis of professional work has differentiated professionalism as a special means of organizing work and controlling ...

More Evidence of Professionalism and Professional Engagement

Medicine under threat: professionalism and professional identity.

T he professions have never been more important to the well-being of society. Professional knowledge and expertise are at the core of contemporary society. How such professional expertise is developed, how it is deployed, by whom it is deployed and for what ends are among the most pressing issues facing all modern nations. At the same time, many of the most distinctive features of the professio...

Dreaming Cogniton and Acculturation Processes

The author suggests that dreaming cognition be modeled as reflecting dynamic, integrative, culturallysensitive, and historically holistic methods. The author conceptualizes six models of dreaming cognition. 1) Freudian dreaming model, 2) Jungian analytic model, 3) neurocognitive or neurophysiological dreaming model, 4) acculturative dreaming brain model (Sang Bok Lee, 2005: ”Lee Acculturation D...