Learning and Context: Connections in Continuing Professional Education
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This qualitative interpretivist study analyzed the interrelationships among professional practice, the knowledge gained in continuing professional education programs, and the context of employment. Eighty semi-structured, tape-recorded interviews were conducted with social workers, lawyers, adult educators, and nurses who had attended continuing education programs 9-24 months previously. Findings indicate that professionals construct a knowledge base by moving back and forth between continuing professional education programs and their professional practice. This process of knowledge construction was affected by elements of the structural, human resources, political and symbolic frames of the contexts in which professionals were employed. Implications for research and practice in continuing professional education are drawn.
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