Professional Practice and Learning Times, Spaces, Bodies, Things
This book explores important questions about the relationship between professional practice and learning, and implications of this for how we understand professional expertise. Focusing on work accomplished through partnerships between practitioners
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Professional Practice and Learning Times, Spaces, Bodies, Things
Professional Practice and Learning
Nick Hopwood
Professional Practice and Learning Times, Spaces, Bodies, Things
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Nick Hopwood School of Education University of Technology Sydney Broadway, NSW Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-26162-1 ISBN 978-3-319-26164-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26164-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015953794 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
For: Alison; any parent who has struggled; and the many professionals who work tirelessly to help all children get the best possible start in life.
Preface
What Kind of Book Is This, Whom Is It for, and How Should It be Read? I hope that this book will be of interest to a number of audiences, each with a different purpose, background, and prior knowledge base. Four in particular come to mind, although there may well be more. In some ways the reader I imagined most frequently while writing this book is another educational researcher, perhaps more specifically someone with interest in questions of workplace learning, professional practice. If this is you, some of the references and concepts that I draw on will be very familiar; others may be glaring in their absence. Chapter 2, which describes the research site, might be particularly important as an introduction to an unfamiliar context, while Chap. 3 might reveal differences in our theoretical understandings and perspectives. The book is offered as a contribution to and extension of sociomaterial and practicebased approaches, what Paul Hager calls a third tranche of workplace learning research, embracing an overarching metaphor of emergence. On this basis I hope it offers something different, perhaps challenging, in terms of the accou
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