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Encyclopedia of Professionalization

Organization of Professions, Production of Professionalities and Growth of Professionalism

By: Didier Demaziere,Richard Wittorski

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Encyclopedia of Professionalization

Organization of Professions, Production of Professionalities and Growth of Professionalism

By: Didier Demaziere,Richard Wittorski

Professionalization has become a given in the worlds of work and education. For a wide variety of professions, public and private organizations and training and further education courses, professionalization is an inescapable reality. However, it takes on diverse, even contradictory meanings, according to what it represents: a managerial imperative imposed by public or managerial policies, or a set of goals defined by an ideal of service or quality of work. The purpose of Encyclopedia of Professionalization is to discuss the current challenges facing professionalization and, by exploring major research traditions, to clarify the meanings associated with this concept and the various phenomena it encompasses. Three major notions of professionalization are examined: the manufacturing of professions in pursuit of autonomy, the rise of professionalisms embodying notions of a job well done, and the construction of renewed professionalities at the very heart of work situations and training systems.

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John Wiley & Sons

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ISBN 10

1394332416

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9781394332410

Research Methodology in Education and Training

Postures, Practices and Forms, Volume 12

By: Carole Daverne-Bailly,Richard Wittorski

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Research Methodology in Education and Training

Postures, Practices and Forms, Volume 12

By: Carole Daverne-Bailly,Richard Wittorski

This book is a methodological guide intended for those who wish to better understand how to conduct research in the education and training sciences. It is organized into three main parts. The first part deals with postures, emphasizing the idea that engaging in a research process involves taking a different stance from that of a social or professional actor. For example, this may require converting a professional or social question into a research question or reflecting on the use of a social vocabulary in research. The second part concerns practices, that is, how research is conducted: the definition of a research question based on findings, theoretical exploration and problematization, the production of empirical information and its analysis and restitution. The third and final part concludes by focusing on the diversity of research forms; not only research cultures specific to disciplinary fields and approaches, such as action research, collaborative research or research training, but also the design choices in terms of multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinarily.

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