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Being an Expert Professional Practitioner [electronic resource] : The Relational Turn in Expertise / by Anne Edwards.

By: Edwards, Anne [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Professional and Practice-based Learning: 3Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010Description: XII, 172 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789048139699.Subject(s): Education | Education | Professional & Vocational EducationDDC classification: 370.113 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introducing the Resourceful Practitioner -- Expertise: The Relational Turn -- Knowledge Work at Practice Boundaries -- Relational Agency: Working with Other Practitioners -- Working Relationally with Clients -- Being a Professional -- Working Upstream -- Researching the Relational in Practices.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Professionals deal with complex problems which require working with the expertise of others, but being able to collaborate resourcefully with others is an additional form of expertise. This book draws on a series of research studies to explain what is involved in the new concept of working relationally across practices. It demonstrates how spending time building common knowledge between different professions aids collaboration. The core concept is relational agency, which can arise between practitioners who work together on a complex task: whether reconfiguring the trajectory of a vulnerable child or developing a piece of computer software. Common knowledge, which captures the motives and values of each profession, is essential for the exercise of relational agency and contributing to and working with the common knowledge of what matters for each profession is a new form of relational expertise. The book is based on a wide body of field research including the author’s own. It tackles how to research expert practices using Vygotskian perspectives, and demonstrates how Cultural Historical and Activity Theory approaches contribute to how we understand learning, practices and organisations.
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Introducing the Resourceful Practitioner -- Expertise: The Relational Turn -- Knowledge Work at Practice Boundaries -- Relational Agency: Working with Other Practitioners -- Working Relationally with Clients -- Being a Professional -- Working Upstream -- Researching the Relational in Practices.

Professionals deal with complex problems which require working with the expertise of others, but being able to collaborate resourcefully with others is an additional form of expertise. This book draws on a series of research studies to explain what is involved in the new concept of working relationally across practices. It demonstrates how spending time building common knowledge between different professions aids collaboration. The core concept is relational agency, which can arise between practitioners who work together on a complex task: whether reconfiguring the trajectory of a vulnerable child or developing a piece of computer software. Common knowledge, which captures the motives and values of each profession, is essential for the exercise of relational agency and contributing to and working with the common knowledge of what matters for each profession is a new form of relational expertise. The book is based on a wide body of field research including the author’s own. It tackles how to research expert practices using Vygotskian perspectives, and demonstrates how Cultural Historical and Activity Theory approaches contribute to how we understand learning, practices and organisations.

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