Overview
- This book provides a dialogue space between two fascinating phenomena: professional practice and discourse
- In the 21st century these two phenomena are facing challenges as they negotiate their contested spaces in a rapidly changing global society
- We need to be awake to the imperatives of the re-claimed relevance of practice and discourse to today’s society and today’s professionals in the workforce
Part of the book series: Practice, Education, Work and Society (PEWS)
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About this book
Writing in the margins of texts has a very long history. People have always left part of themselves – their ideas, personality and reflections – in the margins of texts. In this book we have taken up the idea of such written marginalia and we have expanded it into writing into the texts of practice discourse as well as speaking and acting in the margins of professional practice. Such deliberate practice changes in marginal practice spaces and in written practice discourse provides ways of shaping and critically appraising current and future professional practice.
This book provides a dialogue between two fascinating phenomena: professional practice and discourse. In the 21st century these two are facing challenges as they negotiate their contested spaces in a rapidly changing global society. They draw on strong established traditions and expectations but they cannot be complacent in these illusory stabilities. Rather they must be awake to the imperatives of their own re-invention and re-claimed relevance to today’s society and today’s professional class in the workforce.
Across the chapters we explore the core spaces of professional practice discourse from the vantage point of the margins of this space, and the margin spaces as they interact with the core. Marginalia serves as an architect of destabilisation, challenge, revolution, reflection or sometimes affirmation of the central discourse space.
There are five sections in the book: Section One: Professional practice discourse, Section Two: Leading the practice discourse, Section Three: Writing from inside practice, Section Four: Writing onto and into practice and Section Five: Marking trails and stimulating insights.
Readers are invited to contribute to our exploration of the phenomenon and practice of professional practice discourse marginalia.
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Professional Practice Discourse
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Leading The Practice Discourse
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Writing from Inside Practice
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Professional Practice Discourse Marginalia
Editors: Joy Higgs, Franziska Trede
Series Title: Practice, Education, Work and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-600-2
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-600-2Published: 23 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 268
Topics: Education, general