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Professional Practice Discourse Marginalia

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Editors:
  1. Joy Higgs

    1. The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia

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  2. Franziska Trede

    1. The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia

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  • This book provides a dialogue space between two fascinating phenomena: professional practice and discourse
  • In the 21st century these two phenomena are facing challenges as they negotiate their contested spaces in a rapidly changing global society
  • We need to be awake to the imperatives of the re-claimed relevance of practice and discourse to today’s society and today’s professionals in the workforce

Part of the book series: Practice, Education, Work and Society (PEWS)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Professional Practice Discourse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Professional Practice and Discourse

      • Joy Higgs
      Pages 3-10

    3. Co-Writing Discourse through Practice and Theory

      • Narelle Patton, Maree Donna Simpson
      Pages 11-16

    4. Marginalia and Core Discourse

      • Joy Higgs
      Pages 17-26

  3. Leading The Practice Discourse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Working in Complex Practice Spaces

      • Nita Cherry, Joy Higgs
      Pages 29-36

    3. A Praxis Perspective

      • Narelle Patton
      Pages 37-46

    4. Practice, Discourse and Epistemic Cultures

      • Joy Higgs
      Pages 47-54

    5. Appreciating Practice

      • Narelle Patton, Della Fish
      Pages 55-64

    6. Practice Wisdom and Wise Practice

      • Joy Higgs
      Pages 65-72

    7. The Discourse on Ethics and Expertise in Professional Practice

      • Gail Jensen, Clare Delany
      Pages 73-82

    8. Disturbing Professional Practice Discourse

      • Sheridan Linnell, Debbie Horfall
      Pages 83-90

  4. Writing from Inside Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Refocusing Academia in the 21st Century

      • Janice Orrell, Gavin Sanderson
      Pages 93-100

    3. Deliberate Marginalia

      • Franziska Trede, Celina Mcewen
      Pages 101-108

    4. Entering Health Practice Discourse

      • Diane Tasker, Maree Donna Simpson
      Pages 109-114

    5. Working through the Margins

      • Tony Patton
      Pages 115-122

    6. Learning and Shaping Professional Discourse

      • Joy Higgs, Andrew Vann, Roy Tasker, Ross Chambers
      Pages 123-136

    7. Challenging Practice Discourse Dichotomies

      • Sandra Grace, Lesley Cooper
      Pages 137-144
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About this book

This is a book for practitioners, university educators, workplace learning educators, researchers and the professions. It draws together two key elements of the lives of these people: professional practice – what people do, and practice discourse – what they write and say about what they do. And, it focuses these discussions around two spaces – the core and the margins, of practice and discourse. 


Writing in the margins of texts has a very long history. People have always left part of themselves – their ideas, personality and reflections – in the margins of texts. In this book we have taken up the idea of such written marginalia and we have expanded it into writing into the texts of practice discourse as well as speaking and acting in the margins of professional practice. Such deliberate practice changes in marginal practice spaces and in written practice discourse provides ways of shaping and critically appraising current and future professional practice.
 
This book provides a dialogue between two fascinating phenomena: professional practice and discourse. In the 21st century these two are facing challenges as they negotiate their contested spaces in a rapidly changing global society. They draw on strong established traditions and expectations but they cannot be complacent in these illusory stabilities. Rather they must be awake to the imperatives of their own re-invention and re-claimed relevance to today’s society and today’s professional class in the workforce. 
 
Across the chapters we explore the core spaces of professional practice discourse from the vantage point of the margins of this space, and the margin spaces as they interact with the core. Marginalia serves as an architect of destabilisation, challenge, revolution, reflection or sometimes affirmation of the central discourse space.
 
There are five sections in the book: Section One: Professional practice discourse, Section Two: Leading the practice discourse, Section Three: Writing from inside practice, Section Four: Writing onto and into practice and Section Five: Marking trails and stimulating insights.
 
Readers are invited to contribute to our exploration of the phenomenon and practice of professional practice discourse marginalia.


Editors and Affiliations

  • The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia

    Joy Higgs, Franziska Trede

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Professional Practice Discourse Marginalia

  • Editors: Joy Higgs, Franziska Trede

  • Series Title: Practice, Education, Work and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-600-2

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-600-2Published: 23 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 268

  • Topics: Education, general

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