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Surfacing the multiple : diffractive methods for rethinking professional practice and knowledge
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Nicolini, Davide and Roe, Bridget (2014) Surfacing the multiple : diffractive methods for rethinking professional practice and knowledge. In: Fenwick, Tara J. and Nerland, Monika, (eds.) Reconceptualising professional learning : sociomaterial knowledges, practices and responsibilities. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 67-81. ISBN 9780415815772
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Abstract
In this chapter we argue that professional knowledge is necessarily singular and multiple. We add that this is an inherent characteristic of professional knowledge heightened by recent developments. Our point of departure is that practical knowledge is over-determinate by nature: multiple and often dissonant causes, forces, histories intersect at the point where practice is accomplished. In the process, the adoption of a given modus operandi leads to the deferral and suppression of all the possible alternatives. In this sense, the ideal of professional practice as a stable, coherent, bounded phenomenon is largely a myth and a convenient fiction that is part and parcel of the process of normalization and disciplining that is inherent in professionalization. To become a professional means both expanding and constraining one's repertoire of conducts. This is because on the one hand, becoming a professional allows one to expand the possibilities of action (i.e., 'what to do next') by tapping into the repertoire of actions developed by former members and sedimented in the professional community's collective experience. On the other hand, joining a profession means observing certain canons and norms and to submit to the profession's authority — something that automatically limits what is do-able, say-able and often thinkable (Foucault's disciplinary project).
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Professional practice, Midwives -- Practice -- Great Britain | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
Place of Publication: | Abingdon | ||||
ISBN: | 9780415815772 | ||||
Book Title: | Reconceptualising professional learning : sociomaterial knowledges, practices and responsibilities | ||||
Editor: | Fenwick, Tara J. and Nerland, Monika | ||||
Official Date: | January 2014 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 67-81 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Description: | 10,000th open access item to be made available in WRAP. |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 July 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 July 2016 |
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