#professionalization

[mwolfmeyer]

Six Steps to Academic Article Writing--From Blog to eBook!

You can now download an eBook that includes all of the six steps to preparing an academic article manuscript blog entries, several pieces on peer review and manuscript revision, and a few posts on converting a dissertation into a book manuscript! Maybe the era of the blog is officially over? And, if so, I’ll put together the content from this blog into a series of thematic eBooks. In the…

[mwolfmeyer]

The Glowing Eyes Job Letter

Let’s get this out of the way: Vince McMahon is a terrible person. But, the Vince McMahon Glowing Eyes meme is really excellent. You probably know it and know that it builds from a modest claim to a more exciting one to even more exciting ones, leading to McMahon’s Glowing Eyes. In 2022, I was on the job market and decided it was time to take a very different rhetorical approach to my job…

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[culturaldiversityday]

Creativity and the creative economy: building relevant technical skills to thrive.

Creativity and innovation aren’t just buzz words of our generation. They are increasingly highly demanded skills in the labour market and for adapting to the fast-evolving requirements of our times. Developing skills for the cultural and creative industries strengthens the professionalization of the sector while pushing the boundaries of problem-solving, communicating and learning. This session discusses how education can unlock and nurture this critical human resource.

[academicarticlesiveread]

Toward a New Model of the Information Professions: Embracing Empowerment.pdf

Maack, Mary Niles. “Toward a New Model of the Information Professions: Embracing Empowerment.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, vol. 38, no. 4, 1997, pp. 283–302. https://doi.org/10.2307/40324190. 

[shrinkrants]

How can social work be a part of liberation from the psychiatric hegemony? - School of Social Work

Natalie Femia writes about solidarity, professionalism and social work's alignment with psychiatry in this blog for The Social Lens.

I can’t stop thinking about this whole push for registration and the professionalisation project within the context of Audre Lorde’s piece, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” (Lorde, 1984). If I can circle back to the social work role within the realm of mental health, it makes sense to me to think about the alignment with psychiatry through this lens of the master’s tools, with the master’s house being the psychiatric hegemony and its brothers and sisters – white supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy. We already know that the biomedical model narrows meaning, closes off alternative possibilities, and obscures social and political drivers of distress. Another effect that makes this important for us to talk about is the fact that it is clear – and has been clear to others who have argued this same point – that the biomedical model of mental health and the psychiatric hegemony create a distance between ‘professional’ and ‘client’ that is oppressive (Medicating Normal, 2022). This results in an increased (and invisibilised) power differential, othering of the client, a lack of empathy for clients and their experiences, and a denial of the legitimacy of theirs and others’ lived experience expertise. This separateness contributes to and perpetuates the oppression caused by the psychiatric hegemony.

[bluewatsons]

Recent studies of professionalization show that professionalism did not emerge, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in response to clearly defined social needs. Instead, the new professions themselves invented many of the needs they claimed to satisfy. They played on public fears of disorder and disease, adopted a deliberately mystifying jargon, ridiculed popular traditions of self-help as backward and unscientific, and in this way created or intensified (not without opposition) a demand for their own services.

Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

[mystlnewsonline]

LONDON | Report: Male sports fans have big interest in women's sports

LONDON | Report: Male sports fans have big interest in women’s sports

LONDON — Male sports fans make up more than half of the group of people with an interest in women’s sports, according to a report published Thursday by analysts Nielsen Sports.

The report found that 84 percent of general sports fans in eight key markets around the world, including the United States and Britain, have an interest in women’s sports, and that 51 percent of those are male.

“This…

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