Professional-destructive activity as a manifestation of professional marginalization and deprofessionalization

Linguistic Audit as a Professional Activity

The subject of this research is linguistic (or: language) audit. The term is new and not being widely used so far. Linguistic audit, in particular, is offered as a service of linguistic-consulting agencies’ activities. Modern linguistic consulting, according to the author, is a form of stimulating theoretical and practical development of linguistic ecology, a new branch of applied linguistics, ...

Professional Productivization: New Concept Development as a Professional Art

This paper aims to further insight into the process of knowledge productivization within management consultancies. Consultants are often presented as main suppliers and commodifiers of management knowledge. However we argue that current accounts lack a view on the way new knowledge products are developed within consulting firms. By drawing on product innovation literature, this paper shows that...

DEPROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE CORPORATE OPTOMETRIST? CONTRASTING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BUREAUCRATIC AND PROFESSIONAL MODELS by

Professional Formation as Social Movement

Could current efforts to reshape legal education and give more emphasis to professional identity formation be harbingers of a developing social movement in higher education? I want to argue that they should be seen that way. Furthermore, I want to suggest that conceptualizing those efforts as a social movement helps to explain why recent workshops on the formation of student professional identi...

Professional Expertise as a Historical Problem

IN HIS REMARKABLE farewell address to the nation in January 1961, during which he introduced the phrase “military-industrial complex” to the lexicon of American politics, President Dwight Eisenhower spoke also of his fear that, in the future, “public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” By this utterance, the president wished to draw attention to the incr...