Educating for Civic-mindedness: Nurturing authentic professional identities through transformative higher education

By Carolin Kreber.

Educating for Civic-mindedness: Nurturing authentic professional identities through transformative higher education

Description

Imagined at their best, how might professions contribute most effectively to their local and global communities, and how could higher education support graduates/future professionals in making this contribution? The answer proposed in this book is to educate students for ‘civic-mindedness’, an overarching professional capability grounded in certain dispositions and qualities, ideals, types of knowledge and political emotions. ‘Civic-mindedness’, and its internal counterpart, the practitioner’s self-cultivation, give rise to an engagement with professional pract...

ISBN(s)

0415735505, 9780415735506

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