The Power of Professionalism

The Power of Professionalism

Author: Bill Wiersma

Publisher:

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781932881042

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"Professional ideals build trust. And trust is the foundation for both personal and organizational success. Better professionals (and more of them) are the antidote for much of what ails the business world today ... Wiersma outlines the seven key mind-sets of trusted professionals, offering a blueprint for both individuals and organizations interested in fostering a culture of professionalism ... Professionalism is unique. It's the ladder upon which all other organizational virtues rest. That's why organizations whose members view themselves as professionals will outperform, outsmart, and outlast organizations that don't, which translates into competitive advantage"--Dust jacket.


Realizing The Power Of Professional Learning

Realizing The Power Of Professional Learning

Author: Timperley, Helen

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0335244041

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Developing an approach to professional learning that has motivated teachers and resulted in impressive improvements in student learning, particularly for students who traditionally underachieve in school.


Professional Capital

Professional Capital

Author: Andy Hargreaves

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0807771708

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The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: the professional capital of every teacher working together in every school. Speaking out against policies that result in a teaching force that is inexperienced, inexpensive, and exhausted in short order, these two world authorities--who know teaching and leadership inside out--set out a groundbreaking new agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education. Ideas-driven, evidence-based, and strategically powerful, Professional Capital combats the tired arguments and stereotypes of teachers and teaching and shows us how to change them by demanding more of the teaching profession and more from the systems that support it. This is a book that no one connected with schools can afford to ignore. This book features: (1) a powerful and practical solution to what ails American schools; (2) Action guidelines for all groups--individual teachers, administrators, schools and districts, state and federal leaders; (3) a next-generation update of core themes from the authors' bestselling book, "What's Worth Fighting for in Your School?" [This book was co-published with the Ontario Principals' Council.].


The Power of Professional Learning Networks: Traversing the present; transforming the future

The Power of Professional Learning Networks: Traversing the present; transforming the future

Author: Chris Brown

Publisher: John Catt

Published: 2022-07-27

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1915361427

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Now, more than ever, it seems that the age of professional learning networks has well and truly arrived. The rise and proliferation of digital communication, coupled with the circumstances enforced during the pandemic experience, have led to a dynamic re-imagining of Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) – both in terms of what they are for and what they can achieve. Set against this context this book provides a stimulating insight into the current state of the art of professional learning networks and the transformative difference they are poised to make to our educational future. Drawing on a wealth of expertise, each chapter is written by leading thinkers and doers in the field, and covers a range of topics and emerging areas. These include: the professional learning vistas opened up through digital opportunities; how these networks have helped to enhance teachers’ identity and sense of well-being: the new sense of practitioner ownership and partnership now at the heart of PLNs; new openings for professionalization; how PLNs have become vehicles for radically different forms of professional development and learning; and what this all means for school leadership.


The Logic of Professionalism

The Logic of Professionalism

Author: Johan Alvehus

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2021-12-08

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1529206065

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This book explores common management practices as they relate to professional service organizations. Adopting a unique critical institutional view, it focuses on challenges and struggles in both public and private settings and offers new insights. This will be essential reading for scholars of management and leadership.


The Rise of Professionalism

The Rise of Professionalism

Author: Magali Sarfatti Larson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0520323076

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.


Professionalism

Professionalism

Author: Eliot Freidson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-07-10

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0745666299

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Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ideology. He also discusses how historic and national variations in state policy, professional organization, and forms of practice influence the strength of professionalism. In appraising the embattled position of professions today, Freidson concludes that ideologically inspired attacks pose less danger to professionals' institutional privileges than to their ethical independence to resist use of their specialized knowledge to maximize profit and efficiency without also providing its benefits to all in need. This timely and original analysis will be of great interest to those in sociology, political science, history, business studies and the various professions.


The Politics of Professionalism

The Politics of Professionalism

Author: Juris Dilevko

Publisher: Library Juice Press, LLC

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1936117304

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"An alternative proposal for the education of librarians, emphasizing general knowledge and intellectual rigor and discouraging careerism"--Provided by publisher.


Professional Powers

Professional Powers

Author: Eliot Freidson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1988-05-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0226262251

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Freidson guides his analysis by finding what power may be ascribed to formal, codified knowledge. He focuses on the institutions that provide intellectual workers with their knowledge, a regular living, organized political resources, and other means with which to translate formal knowledge into human activity. Surveying professionals, he establishes a basic foundation for tracing the sources and means of professional power. Key issues are discussed as to whether they exercise power in the workplace, in government policy-making, and in the shaping of our physical and social world.