Learning Trajectories, Innovation and Identity for Professional Development

Educators in the professions have always had unique demands placed upon them. These include the need to keep pace with rapidly evolving knowledge bases, developing skills and attitudes appropriate to practice, learning in the workplace and fostering publi

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Innovation and Change in Professional Education VOLUME 7

Series Editor: W.H. Gijselaers, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Associate Editors: L.A. Wilkerson, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles CA, USA H.P.A. Boshuizen, Center for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open Universiteit Nederland, Heerlen, The Netherlands Editorial Board: H. Barrows, School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University, Springfield IL, USA T. Duffy, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, USA K. Eva, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada H. Gruber, Institute of Educational Science, University of Regensburg, Germany R. Milter, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA

SCOPE OF THE SERIES The primary aim of this book series is to provide a platform for exchanging experiences and knowledge about educational innovation and change in professional education and post-secondary education (engineering, law, medicine, management, health sciences, etc.). The series provides an opportunity to publish reviews, issues of general significance to theory development and research in professional education, and critical analysis of professional practice to the enhancement of educational innovation in the professions. The series promotes publications that deal with pedagogical issues that arise in the context of innovation and change of professional education. It publishes work from leading practitioners in the field, and cutting edge researchers. Each volume is dedicated to a specific theme in professional education, providing a convenient resource of publications dedicated to further development of professional education.

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6087

Anne Mc Kee · Michael Eraut Editors

Learning Trajectories, Innovation and Identity for Professional Development

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Editors Dr. Anne Mc Kee Anglia Ruskin University Faculty of Education Chelmsford Campus Bishops Hall Lane CM1 1SQ Chelmsford United Kingdom [email protected]

Prof. Michael Eraut Sussex University Sussex School of Education Sussex House BN1 9RH Brighton United Kingdom [email protected]

ISBN 978-94-007-1723-7 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1724-4 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1724-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011934961 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

Education in the professions includes deep knowing and reflective practice that are gradually integra