Developing T-shaped water professionals: reflections on a framework for building capacity for innovation through collaboration, learning and leadership
Developing T-shaped water professionals: reflections on a framework for building capacity for innovation through collaboration, learning and leadership
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培养 T 型水务专业人员：对通过协作、学习和领导力建设创新能力的框架的思考
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2013
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A. Taylor
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B. McIntosh;A. Taylor
在发达国家和发展中国家，变化日益成为水资源专业人员的中心主题。人口不断增长，城市化迅速发展，对水、粮食和能源的需求不断增加，而降雨模式不断变化，供水、能源供应、粮食生产、生计和生态支持所需的水之间正在出现权衡取舍的情况。建设水资源专业人员的能力，使他们能够领导政策、规划、管理和社区的变革，系统地解决这些问题，是我们集体应对全球水资源挑战的一个重要组成部分。本文概述了水的领导和能力发展领域的贡献，然后批判性地讨论了一个概念，T形的专业，被用来作为一个框架，以指导设计和交付的研究生教育计划，以建立在水部门的领导能力。T形概念整合了领导力，学习理论，协作，批判性思维和实践的见解。在这样做的过程中，这一概念及其在研究生教育背景下的应用方式提供了一种智力上连贯和实用的方法，以发展水专业人员所需的技能和知识，促进和领导变革。
In developed and development contexts, change is an increasingly central theme for water professionals. Growing populations, rapid urbanization and increasing demands for water, food and energy, are set against a backdrop of changing rainfall patterns and emerging trade-offs between the water required for water supply, energy provision, food production, livelihoods and ecological support. Building the capacity of water professionals to lead the changes in policy, planning, management and communities required to tackle these issues systemically is an essential component of our collective response to global water challenges. This paper provides a contribution to the fields of water leadership and capacity development by outlining, then critically discussing how a concept, the T-shaped professional, is being used as a framework to guide the design and delivery of postgraduate education programs to build leadership capacity in the water sector. The T-shaped concept integrates insights from leadership, learning theory, collaboration, critical thinking and praxis. In doing so, the concept and the way in which it has been applied in the context of postgraduate education provide an intellectually coherent and practical approach to developing the skills and knowledge required by water professionals to stimulate and lead change.