Forestry: Profession, Professional, Professionalism

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 ...

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...

Professionalism, profession and the virtues of the good physician.

The putative loss of professionalism in medicine has of late become of serious concern to practitioners, educators, ethicists and the public. Impassioned pleas for its restitution abound. Serious ethical obligations are linked to the idea of a profession. Yet, most of the definitions have been socio-historical, political or legal. Important as these aspects may be, there is need for a firmly ...

More Evidence of Professionalism and Professional Engagement

Is dentistry a profession? Part 2. The hallmarks of professionalism.

In this second in a series of 3 articles, the author builds on the definition of professionalism developed in the first article, arguing that the social contract between the profession and the public entails a collective responsibility of the members of the profession to serve the public good. Several specific professional duties are deduced, such as the duties to attain and maintain competence...