Educating Professionals: Responding to New Expectations for Competence and Accountability

by Lynn Curry, Jon F. Wergin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555425234
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/06/1993
Series:	Higher and Adult Education Series
Pages:	403
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 9.37(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

LYNN CURRY is principal and founder of Curry Adams &Associates, Inc. She has worked with educators, regulators, andassociations of a range of professions, including medicine,nursing, law, social work, and rehabilitation therapies.

JON F. WERGIN is professor of education at VirginiaCommonwealth University. From 1989 to 1991 he was vice-presidentfor Division I, Education in the Professions of the AmericanEducational Research Association.

Table of Contents

Part One: Trends and Forces Reshaping Professional Practice.

Part Two: Meeting New Requirements Through ProfessionalEducation.

Part Three: Professional Education and Practice in LifelongPartnership.