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Professional practice is grounded and realised in being, doing, knowing and becoming, for individual practitioners and for communities of practice. Practice is released and enacted through metaphor, interpretation and narrative. Using dialogue and discourse we share our practices and our practice understandings.
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Higgs, J. (2016). Practice Wisdom and Wise Practice. In: Higgs, J., Trede, F. (eds) Professional Practice Discourse Marginalia. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-600-2_8
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