Strengthening professionalism for the public good: implications for professional education
Strengthening professionalism for the public good: implications for professional education
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为公共利益加强专业精神：对专业教育的影响
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2008
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Gayatri R. Pawar
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M. Savitha;Gayatri R. Pawar
“发展话语：南非的高等教育和减贫”项目探讨了大学专业教育如何为南非的转型优先事项做出贡献，特别是减贫，我们将其概念化为人类能力的扩展。本工作文件基于该项目正在开发的理念（借鉴了 Amartya Sen [1999] 和 Martha Nussbaum [2000] 的工作），即“扶贫专业精神”可以被确定为一系列专业职能能力，受到一系列课程和教学指标的鼓励，这将教育专业人员为穷人的利益发挥作用。我们建议，专业精神的话语可以作为一种资源来阐述和阐明转型中的南非专业教育者所面临的任务。世界各地有证据表明，被定义为为公共利益而工作的理想典型职业精神正处于危机之中：自利和技术理性盛行，并且存在与腐败国家（包括实行种族隔离的南非）勾结的历史。尽管如此，我们认为，职业生活的诚信对于各地公民文化的健康都是必要的；并且，有一些理由相信，与社会职能和共同利益相关的专业精神概念可以复兴，为当代世界的任何民主社会服务，特别是在南非。
The project ‘Developing Discourses: Higher Education and Poverty Reduction in South Africa’ explores how university-located professional education might contribute to South Africa’s transformation priorities, in particular poverty reduction, which we conceptualize as the expansion of human capabilities. This working paper builds on the idea that the project is developing (drawing on the work of Amartya Sen [1999] and Martha Nussbaum [2000]) that ‘propoor professionalism’ can be identified as a set of professional functional capabilities, encouraged by a range of curriculum and pedagogic indicators, which would educate professionals to function in the interests of the poor. We propose that the discourse of professionalism might be employed as a resource to elaborate and illuminate the task that faces the educators of professionals in a transforming South Africa. Across the world there is evidence that ideal-typical professionalism, defined as working for the public good, is in crisis: self-interest and technical rationality are prevailing, and there are histories of collusion with corrupt states (including apartheid South Africa). Nevertheless, we argue that the integrity of professional life is necessary to the health of civic culture everywhere; and, that there are some grounds for believing that a concept of professionalism that is linked to social functions and the common good can be revived to be of service in any democratic society in the contemporary world, and in South Africa in particular.