Teacher Accountability: Reflective Professional or Competent Practitioner?

Building competent reflective systems

A competent system need not be perfect. It should not try to solve unsolvable problems. Rather it should simplify and decompose overcomplex problems, complement missing information, weight the quality of a solution against the cost of achieving it, approximate solutions if time is sparse, etc. To make a knowledge-based system more competent, we propose to enhance it by suitable competence speci...

Need for Professional Accountability

Being at the doorstep of the 21st century it is imperative to take stock of prevailing psychiatric practices so that the profession is adequately prepared to face the challanges ahead. Psychiatry has advanced rapidly during the last few decades and today our armamentarium includes an array of effective pharmacological and psychological methods to modify behaviour. Since more powerful the tool g...

The emotionally competent professional

Social work involves working with people in distress and difficulties, people who have perhaps been traumatised by abuse or other life experience, people who have encountered major loss, suffering and pain. In addition there can be immense feelings of alienation and disaffection rooted in social inequalities and the discrimination and oppression associated with them. It would therefore be extre...

Digital Portfolios in Teacher Education: Blending Professional Standards, Assessment, Technology, and Reflective Practice

Digital portfolios can be powerful tools for facilitating reflective practice when based on sound developmental principles and adequately supported by mentoring, peer review, and other effective practices. This article explores the use of the digital portfolio to promote reflection by practitioners and suggests strategies that can be employed by teacher educators to maximize the benefits of the...

The Reflective Practitioner Perspective in Software Engineering