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Title Developing the capable practitioner : professional capability through higher education / edited by Dave O'Reilly, Lynne Cunningham, Stan Lester
Published London ; Dover, NH : Kogan Page, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations
Series Teaching and learning in higher education
Teaching and learning in higher education.
Contents In conversation with Donald Schon / summarized by Dave O'Reilly -- Multiple mirrors: reflecting on reflections / Reva Berman Brown and Sean McCartney -- From didactic expert to partner in learning / Jennifer A. Butler -- From map-reader to map-maker: approaches to moving beyond knowledge and competence / Stan Lester -- Towards capability through competence: autonomy or automatism? / Ann-Marie Bathmaker and David Stoker -- Capabilities for successful self-development / Lynda M. Stansfield -- Action learning and capability: a search for common ground / Steve Reeve -- Competence and capability: from 'confidence trick' to the construction of the graduate identity / Len Holmes -- Assessing the self-managing learner: a contradiction in terms? / Stan Lester -- Practice-based assignments: social work education as a case-study / Dave Evans and Jackie Langley
(Continued) Professional capability: requirements and accreditation in the legal profession / Diana Tribe -- Professional capability: a case-study bridging vocational, academic and professional frameworks / Geraldine Doherty and Rachel Pierce -- Professional competence development: the internal audit experience / Alex Dunlop, Trevor Hassall and Maggie Challis -- Delivering relevant higher education to the workplace / Geoffrey W. Beeson -- The skills of graduates: a small enterprise perspective / Mantz Yorke -- Conceptualizing competence and reflective practice: feminist perspective / Mary Issitt -- Beyond competences: lessons from management learning / Ian Cunningham -- Professional competence: harmonizing reflective practitioner and competence-based approaches / Graham Cheetham and Geoff Chivers -- The challenge of developing the capable practitioner / Stan Lester
Summary "This edited compilation of papers examines the processes of developing capable professionals and practitioners through higher education. The contributors review current developments in education - for educators and managers - echoing the issues raised by the Dearing and Learning Age Reports. The book focuses particularly on the development of individual capability through effective self-managed learning."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Professional education.
Education, Higher.
Vocational Education
higher education.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher
Professional education
Form Electronic book
Author O'Reilly, Dave
Cunningham, Lynne
Lester, Stan
ISBN 9781136358845
1136358846
9780203062326
0203062329