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  • Learning Trajectories, Innovation and Identity for Professional Development

    Edited by Anne Mc Kee, Michael Eraut ...
    Series Book 7 - Innovation and Change in Professional Education
    Educators in the professions have always had unique demands placed upon them. These include the need to keep pace with rapidly evolving knowledge bases, developing skills and attitudes appropriate to practice, learning in the workplace and fostering public confidence.For twenty years, these new demands have created additional educational imperatives. Public accountability has become more intensive ... Read more

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  • Developing Professional Knowledge And Competence

    by Michael Eraut ...
    This volume analyzes different types of knowledge and know-how used by practising professionals in their work and how these different kinds of knowledge are acquired by a combination of learning from books, learning from people and learning from personal experience.; Drawing on various examples, problems addressed include the way theory changes and is personalized in practice, and how individuals ... Read more

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  • Faculty Development in the Health Professions

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    Series series Education (R0)
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    Critical Choices and Practical Strategies

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  • Problem-Based Learning in Clinical Education

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    Series series Education (R0)
    Developed in the context of health sciences education in the late 1960s, problem-based learning (PBL) is now widely deployed as an education methodology. Its problem-solving, collaborative, student-centred ethos is seen as a more appropriate system of pedagogy than earlier ‘chalk-and-talk’ modes. Focusing on its use in clinical education, this collection of recent scholarship on PBL examines the ... Read more

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  • Learning in Landscapes of Practice

    Boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning

    If the body of knowledge of a profession is a living landscape of practice, then our personal experience of learning can be thought of as a journey through this landscape. Within Learning in Landscapes of Practice, this metaphor is further developed in order to start an important conversation about the nature of practice knowledge, identity and the experience of practitioners and their learning. ... Read more

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  • Transitions and Transformations in Learning and Education

    Series series Education (R0)
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    Commitment of VET and VET Research

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