Postgraduate Course: Perspectives on Professionalism and Professional Practices (REDU12005)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education and Sport |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 12 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The overall aim of the course is to interrogate the meanings and uses of professionalism, in order to develop a deeper understanding of the changing nature of professional work and work identities and the relationship between changing professional work and policy developments. The course does this through examination of the changing nature of professionalism in contemporary society; and through consideration of the relationship between global and international developments in professional work and more 'local' UK and Scottish developments, with particular attention to current developments in the management of professional work, including the use of data and performance management, and the trend to integration of professional work across services and disciplines. The course has an orienting function and seeks to help participants use research to 'problematise' their day-to-day professional activity and engage with it in a reflexive manner. It is hoped that participants will enhance their ability to articulate and analyse the notion of professionalism and professional practice (including their own) from a variety of perspectives, and develop interdisciplinary enquiry into professionalism and its contemporary meanings. |
| Course description |
Not entered
|
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
|
Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
|
| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
|
Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Assessment (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
|
| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The assessment task: the assessment of the Professionalism course is both formative and cumulative. In the first stage, course members are asked to prepare and present an account of a 'critical incident' in their professional work, that serves to integrate their professional experience with their understanding of the literature encountered in the course and with an explicit theoretical perspective on professionalism, drawn from the range of approaches to which they are introduced in the January week. This presentation is required for day 2 of the spring week. The paper is not formally assessed, but critical feedback is given by the course tutor and by the members of the group. It is possible to prepare a joint or collaborative paper, but each member of the course must make a presentation. This formative activity is designed to support the formal assessment task: the preparation and submission of an assignment of 4,000 to 5,000 words by the end of May.
The assignment topic is open to some negotiation with the course tutor, but must address the following key issue: the nature of contemporary professionalism, with reference to current developments in professional practice, to contemporary scholarship and to theoretical perspectives on the professions. Course members are also encouraged to discuss the interrelationship of experience, practice and theory.
|
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
The course seeks to produce the following learning outcomes:
capacity to interrogate the meanings and uses of professionalism,
in order to develop a deeper understanding of the changing nature of professional work;
understanding of the relationship between changing professional work and policy developments, including the trend to integration of professional work across services and disciplines.
|
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Carolin Kreber
Tel: (0131 6)51 6668
Email: |
Course secretary | Ms Lorraine Denholm
Tel: (0131 6)51 6433
Email: |
|
|
University Homepage