The Thinking Professional: Transformative Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1837085277 ISBN 13: 9781837085279

Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

This book concerns any progressive discipline and human profession looking to transform its practice via the cultivation of thinking professionals, which are preferable to unthinking professionals who may be inattentive, unphilosophical, not inclined or not know how to think deeply and profoundly. Thus, they fail to give due consideration to an issue or the consequences before acting. Thinking professionals have a complete and accurate image (mastery) of their professional identity and reality, and they can reflect on, reason through, and justify any decision to act. They would have thinking acumen (i.e., able to make good judgements and shrewd decisions), which requires a rich repertoire of contemporary perspectives and lenses, ideally with a critical bend (exposing and challenging power).
Both The Thinking Professional and transformative practice are used as hooks and threads through the entire book and as anchors for each chapter. The 17-chapter collection is organized into (a) what thinking professionals could think about in the abstract as well as more concrete ideas including (b) how they could think about or view their practice differently and (c) how they could transform their practice and do things differently. Topics include paradigm shifts, the human condition, transdisciplinarity, the holomovement principle, philosophical well-being, perspective transformation, and transformative social change agency.
Readers will also engage with intellectual curiosity and skeptical thinking, tacit knowledge management, the critical science approach, and critical discourse analysis. Other topics include transformative leadership, postmodernism, after postmodernism, reflective human action leadership, and communities of practice. In some cases, the century-old home economics profession is used as a working case to bring ideas alive. This book showcases The Thinking Professional who has transformative practice as their end goal.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sue L. T. McGregor (PhD, IPHE, professor emerita, MSVU) has 50 years of experience as a professional home economist researcher and educator (both public school and higher education).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1837085277
• ISBN 13: 9781837085279
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Mcgregor Sue L. T.
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