This blog posting is third in a series hosted by ProPEL Matters to examine how big and small data is implicated in changes to professional practices and increasing datafication of work and professional learning. In his seminal work on the history of the arcades of Paris, Walter Benjamin wrote that his aim for this project was ‘to discover in the… Read more →
This blog posting is the second in a series hosted by ProPEL Matters to examine how big and small data is implicated in changes to professional practices and increasing datafication of work and professional learning. There was a time when I didn’t worry too much about the ontology of data. When I worked in the field of nuclear structure physics,… Read more →
The current swirl of debate around big data and challenges of mining, capturing, curating, storing, and analyzing large data sets shows little sign of abating. In any given day, most workers will generate, use, provide, interact with, and interpret some kind of digitally-rendered data. Ways of working—and everyday living and learning—are increasingly infused with information and decisions made elsewhere and… Read more →
Changing practice, and what it means to be a professional Many things are changing how professionals go about their work. New technologies, new policy frameworks, fiscal austerity, changing expectations from government and society at large, shifting needs of clients and service users – these all have important implications for what professionals do, and how they maintain high standards of responsibility… Read more →
In recent years, an emphasis in public service delivery has been placed on reforming professionalism through, for instance, reaccreditation processes, more effective inter-professional practice, greater user engagement and co-production of services, and more effective integration of para-professional and technical support. Concurrently there has been increased emphasis on professional standards, accountability, and external measures. Increasing and enhancing professionalism, continuing professional development… Read more →
One project we are enjoying now in ProPEL is looking at professionals’ use of social media. And one of the first things we ran into in this fascinating cyberscape were the new codes of online professionalism: regulations governing what professionals can and cannot do in social media. Professionalism is one of those hot topics that never seems to lose its… Read more →