Postgraduate Course: Perspectives on Professionalism and Professional Practices (REDU12005)
Course Outline
| School |
Moray House School of Education |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 12 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Research (EDU) |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
The overall aim of the course is to interrogate the meanings and uses of professionalism, in order to develop a deeper understanding of the changing nature of professional work and work identities and the relationship between changing professional work and policy developments. The course does this through examination of the changing nature of professionalism in contemporary society; and through consideration of the relationship between global and international developments in professional work and more $ùlocal&© UK and Scottish developments, with particular attention to current developments in the management of professional work, including the use of data and performance management, and the trend to integration of professional work across services and disciplines. The course has an orienting function and seeks to help participants use research to $ùproblematise&© their day-to-day professional activity and engage with it in a reflexive manner. It is hoped that participants will enhance their ability to articulate and analyse the notion of professionalism and professional practice (including their own) from a variety of perspectives, and develop interdisciplinary enquiry into professionalism and its contemporary meanings. |
Entry Requirements
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The course seeks to produce the following learning outcomes:
capacity to interrogate the meanings and uses of professionalism,
in order to develop a deeper understanding of the changing nature of professional work;
understanding of the relationship between changing professional work and policy developments, including the trend to integration of professional work across services and disciplines.
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Assessment Information
The assessment task: the assessment of the Professionalism course is both formative and cumulative. In the first stage, course members are asked to prepare and present an account of a $ùcritical incident&© in their professional work, that serves to integrate their professional experience with their understanding of the literature encountered in the course and with an explicit theoretical perspective on professionalism, drawn from the range of approaches to which they are introduced in the January week. This presentation is required for day 2 of the spring week. The paper is not formally assessed, but critical feedback is given by the course tutor and by the members of the group. It is possible to prepare a joint or collaborative paper, but each member of the course must make a presentation. This formative activity is designed to support the formal assessment task: the preparation and submission of an assignment of 4,000 to 5,000 words by the end of May.
The assignment topic is open to some negotiation with the course tutor, but must address the following key issue: the nature of contemporary professionalism, with reference to current developments in professional practice, to contemporary scholarship and to theoretical perspectives on the professions. Course members are also encouraged to discuss the interrelationship of experience, practice and theory.
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Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
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Course secretary |
Ms Lesley Scullion
Tel: (0131 6)51 6678
Email: Lesley.Scullion@ed.ac.uk |
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