From Expert Student to Novice Professional (eBook)

Anna Reid, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Lars Owe Dahlgren, Peter Petocz (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2011 | 2011
VIII, 156 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-94-007-0250-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Students entering higher education expect their studies to lead them towards some specific form of professional career. But in this age, complex internationalized professions are the main source of work for graduates, so students need to prepare themselves for a future that can be volatile, changeable and challenging. This book shows how students navigate their way through learning and become effective students; it details how to shift the focus of their learning away from the formalism associated with the university situation towards the exigencies of working life. It is in this sense that the book explores how people move from being expert students to novice professionals. This book presents a model of professional learning fashioned out of a decade of research undertaken in countries half a world away from each other-Sweden and Australia. It uses empirical research gathered from students and teachers to show how students negotiate the forms of professional knowledge they encounter as part of their studies and how they integrate their understandings of a future professional world with professional knowledge and learning. It reveals that as students move from seeing themselves as learners, they take on more of a novice professional identity which in turn provides a stronger motivation for their formal studies.

Inhalt

Contents 5
1 What’s Happening in Higher Education? 8
What This Book Is About 8
Learning for the Professions 9
The Contribution of Formal Learning Situations to Pre-professional Learning 11
The Contribution of Learners to Pre-professional Learning 12
Discourses of Higher Education andWorking Life 12
Identity, Learning and Engagement 14
The Contribution of the Early Twenty-First Century World to Pre-professional Learning 16
The Contribution of Earlier Eras to Pre-professional Learning 17
Higher Education, Professions and Internationalisation 19
Communities of Professional Practice 20
Who Are Our Students? 21
How Is Professional Preparation Experienced? 24
2 Professional Learning: How Can We Understand Learning for the Professions? 25
Introduction 25
Methodological Approach 26
Introducing the Professional Entity Project 28
Introducing the Journeymen Project 30
Combining the Projects – Issues of Method 33
A Model for Understanding Professional Learning 35
Discussion 37
3 Professional Discourse: How Do Novice Professionals See Themselves? 40
Introduction 40
What Is Professional Discourse? 40
How Do Students Understand Professional Discourses? 42
The Professional Entity 43
Examining the Professional Entity from the Context of One Profession – Music 44
The Effect of Disciplinary Variation 46
Professional Discourses and Learning 52
Professional Discourse and Knowledge 54
4 Professional Knowledge:What Does Knowledge Mean to Novice Professionals? 56
Introduction 56
Ideas Regarding Disciplines and Transitions 58
Students and Novice Professionals’ Conceptions of Knowledge: An Early Study 60
The Journeymen Project 62
The Influence of Curricular Design and Processes 63
Students’ Trajectories of Knowledge Formation 65
Ritual or Rational Preparation for Work Life? 67
The Complexity of Knowledge Formation 68
Further Discussion 70
5 Professional Dispositions: How Are Professional Dispositions Developed in Higher Education? 73
Introduction 73
Investigating Professional Dispositions 76
Students’ Views of Professional Dispositions 77
Students' Views of the Intersections Between Dispositions 81
Broadening the Base for Dispositions 82
Discussion 85
6 Professional Identity: How Is Professional Identity Developed? 88
Introduction 88
The Concept of Identity Formation in the Realm of Studies andWork 89
The Notion of Engagement 91
Influence of Discipline on Identity Formation 93
Developing Engagement in Learning and a Sense of Identity with a Profession – Case Studies 95
Political Science 95
Design 97
Mathematical Sciences -- George 99
Psychology -- Erika 101
Engagement and Identity Formation as a Function of Students’ Learning Experience 103
7 Professional Pedagogies:What Pedagogic Approaches Can Enhance Professional Learning? 105
Introduction 105
Meta-knowledge 106
Authenticity 106
The Structure of Professional Curricula 108
The Effect of a Diffuse Field on Learning for Professional Formation 109
The Effect of a Clear Field on Learning for Professional Formation 112
Balancing Autonomy and Interaction – Acknowledging the Diversity of Students 113
Students’ Ideas About Their Own Learning 116
Envisioning a Broad Curriculum 117
8 What’s the Use of Higher Education? 121
Introduction 121
The Nature of Professions 122
The Expert Student 124
The Novice Professional 125
A Scenario for the Future of Higher Education 127
Designing Curricula – Professional Contextualisation or Disciplinary Organisation 127
Empowering Students in Matters of Influence 129
Upgrading the Significance of Reflection 130
Interprofessional Learning – A Necessity in a Super-Complex World? 131
Learning as a Social Phenomenon 133
Towards Professional Formation 136
References 140
Author Index 149
Subject Index 152

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
• Reihe/Serie: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 156 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Australia • higher education • Knowledge • learning • Professional • professional learning • Professionals • students • Sweden • University • Work
• ISBN-10: 94-007-0250-7 / 9400702507
• ISBN-13: 978-94-007-0250-9 / 9789400702509