Educating Professionals
Responding to New Expectations for Competence and Accountability

Lynn Curry (Author), Jon F. Wergin (Author)

9781555425234, Wiley

Hardback, published 20 April 1993

403 pages
23.8 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.671 kg

This in-depth examination of how to educate professionals for the future identifies the social and political forces that will affect the roles of professionals and change the definitions of professional skill. It shows how educating professionals for the twenty-first century will ultimately require stronger bonds between educational systems and our systems of practice--including more accurate measures of competence and a more integrated system of continuing professional education.

Part One: TrAnds and Forces Reshaping Professional Practice.

Part Two: Meeting New Requirements Through ProfessionalEducation.

Part Three: Professional Education and Practice in LifelongPartnership.

Subject Areas: Education [JN]