Educating Professionals: Responding to New Expectations for Competence and Accountability (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) - Hardcover

Curry, Lynn; Wergin, Jon F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555425232 ISBN 13: 9781555425234

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1993

Synopsis

This in-depth examination of how to educate professionals for the future identifies the social and political forces that will affect the roles of professionals and change the definitions of professional skill. It shows how educating professionals for the twenty-first century will ultimately require stronger bonds between educational systems and our systems of practice--including more accurate measures of competence and a more integrated system of continuing professional education.

About this title

About the Author

LYNN CURRY is principal and founder of Curry Adams &Associates, Inc. She has worked with educators, regulators, andassociations of a range of professions, including medicine,nursing, law, social work, and rehabilitation therapies.

JON F. WERGIN is professor of education at VirginiaCommonwealth University. From 1989 to 1991 he was vice-presidentfor Division I, Education in the Professions of the AmericanEducational Research Association.

From the Inside Flap

In thirteen original chapters, the authors identify the social and political forces that will affect the roles of professionals and change the definitions of professional skill. They show how educating professionals for the twenty-first century will ultimately require stronger bonds between educational systems and our systems of practice--including more accurate measures of competence, a more integrated system of continuing professional education, and a broader view of faculty scholarship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555425232
• ISBN 13: 9781555425234
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 403