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Book SynopsisResponsibility and professionalism are increasingly issues of concern for professional associations, employers and educators alike. When bad things happen, professionals are often held personally accountable for complex situations. Professional Responsibility and Professionalism advances our approaches to professional responsibility from individual-centred, virtue-based prescriptions towards understanding and responding effectively to the multifaceted challenges encountered today by professionals working in dynamic complexity. The author applies a sociomaterial examination to specific examples drawn from different professional contexts of practice. She examines important implications for what professional responsibility and accountability might mean individually and collectively, and what it might be becoming when demands increasingly conflict, and when we accept that capacities for action are performed into existence in emergent and precarious webs of both human and non-huma
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‘I would agree that there is a need for this book because in a novel way it brings together professionalism and professional responsibility, governance, and sociomateriality.’ Charlotte Rees, University of Dundee
‘I guess what the proposed book brings is a multi-professional take (rather than uni-professional) and I think if the author can pull off a sophisticated synthesis of the similarities and differences between the different professions then the book will be an impressive development on what is currently available.’ –Charlotte Rees, University of Dundee
‘The author is very recognized in the field and has published a number of well-respected books. I have no doubts in that regard!’ Charlotte Rees, University of Dundee
‘Major strengths and distinctive features:
The proposal is written with an international audience in mind
It is timely; this topic is of current and growing interest
It takes a distinctive theoretical position that will be of interest to existing scholars as well as post-graduate students
It includes a wide range of empirical examples and material’ – Alison Fuller, IOE
‘I believe that this book will be an original contribution to the literature on professional responsibility and professionalism that will interest practicing professionals, for postgraduate students as well as professional educators and managers.
I could see this book as a main text for a course on the doctorate level or master’s level, focusing on professional learning’ – Madeleine Abrandt-Dahlgren
Table of Contents1. Changing conceptions of professional responsibility 2. The ‘good’ professional: professionalism as governance 3. Measure for measure: expanding regimes of assessment 4.Chapter four When bad things happen: risk and blame in professional responsibility 5. Wanted: the innovative professional 6. Citizen professionals? social and ecological responsibility 7. Co-production, interprofessional practice, and the good collaborator 8. Post-professionalism? new regimes of big data and digital code 9. Risky business: social media and professionalism 10. Reconceptualising professional responsibility in a sociomaterial key 11. Professional education for new regimes and hopeful futures References
