The doctor and the blue form: learning professional responsibility

摘要: Book synopsis: This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society. The conditions practice are changing dramatically the wake globalization, new modes knowledge production, regulatory regimes, increased economic-political pressures. In this, a number challenges emerge: more practitioners become involved interprofessional collaboration developments technologies virtual workworlds emergence transnational cultures interrelated circuits knowledge. The space time relations which embedded becoming complex, as epistemic underpinnings work. Together these shifts bring about intersections responsibilities that call conceptions knowing. Exploring what authors sociomaterial on they argue theories trace not just social but also material aspects – such tools, technologies, texts bodies actions - useful coming terms with described above. Reconceptualising Professional Learning develops through specific cases focused one book’s three main themes: (1) professionals’ knowing practice, (2) work arrangements or (3) responsibility. Each chapter draws upon innovative theory highlight webs may be reconceptualised. Authors based Australia, Canada, Italy, Norway, Sweden, USA well UK their range settings including medicine, teaching, nursing, engineering, services, creative industries, more. By presenting detailed accounts themes from perspective, opens questions methodological approaches. These can help make visible is often invisible today’s messy dynamics learning, point ways configuring educational support policy professionals.