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.
Inhoudsopgave
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Section 1: Introduction: Framing professional practice;
Knowing and doing in context; Doing, knowing, being and becoming:
The nature of professional practice; Our collaborative inquiry.
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Section 2: Dimensions of professional practice:
Practising without certainty: Providing health care in an uncertain
world; The meaning(s) of uncertainty in treatment decision making;
Finding the fifth player: Artistry in professional practice;
Embodying knowledges: Challenging the theory/practice divide;
Exploring relationships in health care practice; Technology and the
depersonalisation of knowledge and practice; The research-sensitive
practitioner; The practice-sensitive researcher.
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Section 3: Journeying on professional practice: Using
autobiographical narrative and reflection to link personal and
professional domains; Students and educators learning within
relationships; Becoming in professional practice: An exemplar;
Transforming practice; Articulating practice; Whether the twain
shall meet: Knowledge and practice in the education of health and
human service professionals; Parallel journeys in professional
practice; Developing creative arts expertise; Weaving the body, the
creative unconscious, imagination and the arts into practice
development.
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Section 4 Reflections: Professional practice: Walking
alone with others; Towards professional artisty and creativity in
practice.
Index.
Over de auteur
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.