Name: Reconceptualising Professional Learning By Tara Fenwick (University of Stirling, UK)
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Reconceptualising Professional Learning: Sociomaterial knowledges, practices and responsibilities by Tara Fenwick (University of Stirling, UK)

This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society. The conditions for professional practice and learning are changing dramatically in the wake of globalization, new modes of knowledge production, new regulatory regimes, and increased economic-political pressures. In the wake of this, a number of challenges for learning emerge:

more practitioners become involved in interprofessional collaboration
developments in new technologies and virtual workworlds
emergence of transnational knowledge cultures and interrelated circuits of knowledge.

The space and time relations in which professional practice and learning are embedded are becoming more complex, as are the epistemic underpinnings of professional work. Together these shifts bring about intersections of professional knowledge and responsibilities that call for new conceptions of professional knowing.

Exploring what the authors call sociomaterial perspectives on professional learning they argue that theories that trace not just the social but also the material aspects of practice such as tools, technologies, texts but also bodies and actions - are useful for coming to terms with the challenges described above.

Reconceptualising Professional Learning develops these issues through specific contemporary cases focused on one of the books three main themes: (1) professionals knowing in practice, (2) professionals work arrangements and technologies, or (3) professional responsibility. Each chapter draws upon innovative theory to highlight the sociomaterial webs through which professional learning may be reconceptualised. Authors are based in Australia, Canada, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the USA as well as the UK and their cases are based in a range of professional settings including medicine, teaching, nursing, engineering, social services, the creative industries, and more.

By presenting detailed accounts of these themes from a sociomaterial perspective, the book opens new questions and methodological approaches. These can help make more visible what is often invisible in todays messy dynamics of professional learning, and point to new ways of configuring educational support and policy for professionals.

About Tara Fenwick (University of Stirling, UK)

Tara Fenwick is Professor of Education at the University of Stirling, UK and director of ProPEL, an international network for research in professional practice, education and learning.. Her most recent book is Emerging Approaches to Educational Research: tracing the sociomaterial, with R. Edwards and P. Sawchuk (Routledge 2012).

Monika Nerland is Professor of Education at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has led several research projects focusing on leraning and knowledge development in different professions. She recently co-edited the book Professional Learning in the Knowledge Society, with K. Jensen and L.C. Lahn (Sense 2012).

Professional knowing-in-practice: rethinking materiality and border resources in telemedicine
Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, Italy
Learning through epistemic practices in professional work: examples from nursing and engineering
Monika Nerland and Karen Jensen, University of Oslo, Norway
The doctor and the blue form: learning professional responsibility
Miriam Zukas, Birkbeck, University of London and

Sue Kilminster, Leeds Medical Education Institute, University of Leeds
Re-thinking teacher professional learning: a more than representational account
Dianne Mulcahy, University of Melbourne, Australia
Surfacing the multiple: diffractive methods for rethinking professional practice and knowledge
Davide Nicolini and Bridget Roe, Warwick University, UK

Section II: Reconceptualising Professional Work Arrangements
Nurturing occupational expertise in the contemporary workplace: an apprenticeship turn in professional learning
Alison Fuller, University of Southampton

Lorna Unwin, Institute of Education, UK
A technology shift and its challenges to professional conduct: mediated vision in endodontics
Asa Makitalo, University of Gotenburg, Sweden

Claes Reit
Engineering knowing in the digital workplace: aligning sociality and materiality in practice
Aditya Johri, Virginia Tech University, USA
Interprofessional working and learning: a conceptualization of their relationship and its implications for education
David Guile, Institute of Education, UK
Arrangements of co-production in healthcare: partnership modes of interprofessional practice
Roger Dunston, University of Technology at Sydney, Australia

Section III: Reconceptualising Professional Responsibility
Materiality and professional responsibility
Tara Fenwick, University of Stirling, UK
Developing professional responsibility in medicine: a sociomaterial curriculum
Nick Hopwood, University of Technology at Sydney, Australia

Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Linkoping University, Sweden

Karin Siwe, Linkoping University, Sweden
Dilemmas of responsibility for health professionals in independent practice
Sarah Wall, University of Alberta, Canada
Putting time to good use in educational work: a question of responsibility
Helen Colley, Huddersfield University, UK

Lea Henriksson, University of Tampere, Finland

Beatrix Niemeyer, University of Flensburg, Germany

Terri Seddon, Monash University, Australia
Professional learning for planetary sustainability: thinking through country

Margaret Somerville, University of Western Sydney

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9780415815772

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0415815770

Title

Reconceptualising Professional Learning: Sociomaterial knowledges, practices and responsibilities by Tara Fenwick (University of Stirling, UK)

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Tara Fenwick (University of Stirling, UK)

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

Year published

2014-03-14

Number of pages

246

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Reconceptualising Professional Learning by Tara Fenwick (University of Stirling, UK)

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Reconceptualising Professional Learning: Sociomaterial knowledges, practices and responsibilities by Tara Fenwick (University of Stirling, UK)

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