TY - BOOK ID - 4793787 TI - Professional learning in the knowledge society AU - Jensen, Karen. AU - Lahn, Leif Chr. AU - Nerland, Monika. PY - 2012 SN - 9789460919947 9460919944 9460919936 9460919928 1283908476 9789460919930 PB - Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Education. KW - Education (general). KW - Education KW - Professional education KW - Knowledge, Sociology of KW - E-books KW - Professional education. KW - Education, Professional KW - Career education KW - Education, Higher KW - Technical education KW - Education, general. KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Knowledge, Sociology of. KW - Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) KW - Sociology of knowledge KW - Communication KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Public opinion KW - Sociology KW - Social epistemology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4793787 AB - This book presents an entirely new approach to professional learning based on perspectives of the knowledge society and, in particular, an interpretation of Knorr Cetina’s work on scientific ‘epistemic cultures’. Starting with a conceptual chapter and followed by a suite of empirical studies from accountancy, education, nursing and software engineering, the book elaborates how: a) knowledge production and circulation take distinct forms in those fields; b) how the knowledge objects of practice in those fields engross and engage professionals and, in the process, people and knowledge are transformed by this engagement. By foregrounding an explicit concern for the role of knowledge in professional learning, the book goes much farther than the current fashion for describing ‘practice-based learning’. It will therefore be of considerable interest to the research, policy, practitioner and student communities involved with professional education/learning or interested in innovation and knowledge development in the professions. ER -