Showing papers on "Professional development published in 1972"

Professionalization of Sociology

Abstract: Sociology has developed as an academic profession since its origin. This paper seeks to analyze the efforts of sociologists to create a practice specialty and to identify the intellectual, organizational, and professional barriers to an "applied sociology." Alternatively, the role of the sociologist as a "staff" professional is examined.

The Making of a Psychiatrist: The Resident's View of the Process of His Professional Development

Abstract: The author reports his findings from interviews with a class of psychiatric residents. He concludes that for the resident, the role that residency training plays in the process of his professional development is very much a function of the types of relationships he is able to form with people in the institute (teachers, supervisors, fellow residents). Where the opportunity exists for an active mutual educational alliance, he experiences professional growth, maturation, and individuation. Where it does not, he is likely to stagnate.

A Theory for Practical Education in Librarianship.

Abstract: Following in the bibliographical wake of a research student, I was reminded recently how lacking in novelty are most of our attitudes to professional education. Contexts and grounds of argument have changed, but some conflicts within the Library Association of the 1880s are recognizably those of the last decade. One's own shorter term of professional memories can confirm that forty years of discussion and contention are likely to be very repetitive. One accounts for this in part, of course, by the likelihood of recurrence of the same range of personalities, with similar predispositions, temperaments, preferences, and prejudices. For the rest, perhaps the greater part, it seems not unlikely that disagreements about education reflect continuing disagreements about the profession. The idea is not ruled out by the undoubted progress that librarianship has made, for one cannot feel sure that the momentum of social change has not been more effective than librarians in conference and committee. It seems to me reasonable, therefore, that we should seek an adequate theoretical basis for the practice of librarianship, before we attempt theories or judgements about its professional studies.

Learning to Teach by Teaching.

Abstract: The question of what makes up the methods course will likely remain as one of those questions of continuing professional interest. At no other point in the educational enterprise, not even in the literature or the linguistics class, are the goals of English Education more clearly reflected. The methods class is a major point at which new ideas and new theory are introduced into the mainstream of American education. Here the interests

Equity and the Finance of Higher Education

Abstract: The many new proposals advanced during the past few years for financing higher education have been promoted, almost without exception, by appealing to their important and favorable equity consequences. WN'hat is meant by the term "equity"? To what degree will various proposals help achieve greater equity, however equity is defined? WN'hat kinds of side effects might these proposals produce in the process of achieving greater equity? Questions like these are difficult to answer because no systematic framework for analyzing equity and equity effects has evolved. Traditionallv, equity has been viewed as a normative matter, and consequently, little attention has been given to developing the tools required to analyze it. The need for answers to the questions posed persists, however, and this Iaper offers a starting point in the search for answers. It might best be viewed as an essay on equity as applied to the provision and finance of higher education. This paper focuses on undergraduate higher education. XWhile there is jointness in the production of undergraduate education and such activities as gradluate and professional education, research, public service, and the arrav of other activities known as higher education, it is also quite apparent that most undergraduate students are enrolled at institutions almost exclusively concerned with undergraduate teaching. It is not inappropriate, therefore, to concentrate only on undergraduate education. The focus is, moreover, on students rather than instiutions of higher education, because public policy presumably seeks to benefit students by producing more or less higher education. In viewing the financing of undergraduate education, I focus, further, on the distinction between public and nonpublic sources of support that is, between support by taxpayers and by students and their parents. I shall be less concerned with the important policy issue of whether public support comes from federal, state, or local government. Finally, I shall emphasize

Women in Law School: Structural Constraint and Personal Choice in the Formation of Professional Identity.

Abstract: What happens when women invade the male domains of the professions, and their training grounds, professional schools? Do they encounter much the same problems of all students in meeting rigorous academic demands, or is their socialization process subtly transmuted and exacerbated by the equally strong requirements of their sexual role? In this exploratory study of the small company of women students at a small Southwestern university law school (hereinafter pseudonymously referred to as "Newstate") their process of identity formation was found to be linked at every developmental stage with the need to articulate a professional persona with their given and deep-seated identities as women.

A functional plan for professional training of broadcasters in developing countries.

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Electric Power Engineering Educational Resources 1969-1970

Abstract: This committee report covers results of a survey of electric power engineering educational resources at eighty-two ECPD (Engineers Council for Professional Development) accredited schools in the USA for the acedemic year 1969-1970. It includes a listing of faculty active during the subject year and their professional experience together with information on student enrollment and its composition. Also included is information on faculty and research funding, support and activity.

The design and evaluation of an instructional staff development program.

Abstract: A model for an instructional staff development program was created based on the recommendations of investigators in the field of teacher education. It emphasized i (l) participant .involvement in program planning; (2) implementation of these plans with provision for individualization of training and supervised practice of skills with students; (3) evaluation based on teacher effectiveness and, to a lesser extent, pupil achievement; (4) vise of released time from school duties or monetary compensation for summer participation to support these activities; and (5 ) the influence of environmental factors in in the participants’ schools which effect their utilization of the technological processes and products focused on in the Staff Development Program. The initial implementation of the model involved 23 teachers of the deaf or the mentally retarded, six media specialists or librarians, and two administrators. The major part of the program was a three and one-half week workshop held in July, 1972, During part of this time, the participants provided instruction to 28 handicapped students, using the processes of instructional technology. These included 1 (l) determining student learning needs through extensive diagnostic testing; (2) developing measurable student objectives based on this information; (3) selecting materials and learning tasks for individual students relevant to their learning objectives; (4) maintaining daily records of student performance; and (3) reinforcing, on a consistent basis, desirable student behavior.

Undergraduate Education for Counselors

Abstract: This article describes an undergraduate preparation program in rehabilitation education that has both terminal and preprofessional characteristics. In an era of heightened concern for differentiated staffing and effective use of manpower in and out of the helping professions, such a curriculum provides a structure by which a career ladder in counselor and subcounselor roles can be created.

A Cross-Cultural Perspective Of Supervisory Values*

Abstract: This paper reports on the results of a study of the attitudes of international chief executives toward supervisory values and practices. As such, this paper is part of a larger study of the attitud...