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This book reflects and extends the great debates that schools, colleges, and universities are having in response to the profound moral conflicts and personal questions facing professionals today: What should we teach our students? What values should we communicate and nurture? What should be the role of the traditional liberal arts in professional education? How should schools and colleges respond to the demands of women and minorities for a more inclusive curriculum?
The authors explore ongoing theoretical and practical considerations of graduate professional education through the ethical and social issues facing professionals in public service. Administrators, teachers, counselors, nurses, or lawyers are recognizing that they face similar questions about their personal and professional lives: Is it possible to sustain a set of fully human values as a practicing professional? As a member of a public organization, how does one deal with dilemmas involving conflicting priorities and ambiguous goals?
The authors responses to these questions are presented as themes, describing connections between curriculum and pedagogy. They have designed an approach to ethical and social questions respectful of the contributions of adult learners and the need to provide diverse perspectives.
"This book shares personal insight into the development of a professional education program based on the liberal arts. It doesn't attempt to gloss over the difficulties which are faced in the process or the future challenges which are foreseen. The authors have succeeded in whetting the appetites of those of us who long to see graduate level professional education focus less on the mechanics of practice and more on the ethics of living and being." — Anna E. McEwan, Florida State University
Foreword
NEL NODDINGS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
JAMES WALLACE AND CELESTE M. BRODY
Part I: Challenges to Professional Education
1. The Role of Liberal Arts in Professional Education
DOUGLAS F. MORGAN
2. Interdisciplinary Studies and the Possibilities of Community
CELESTE M. BRODY
3. Collaborative Learning: Fostering Dialogue Across the Professions
CELESTE M. BRODY
Part II: Thematic Responses to Ethical and Social Issues inProfessional Education
4. Story and Voice in the Education of Professionals
CELESTE BRODY and CAROL WITHERELL with KEN DONALD and RUTHLUNDBLAD
5. Reflection and Adult Development: A PedagogicalProcess
ROBERT R. KLEIN
6. Digging, Daring, and Discovering: Sifting the Soil of Professional Life through Journal Writing
JOANNE E. COOPER
7. Self-interest and its Relation to an Ethic of Care
TERRENCE R. WHALEY
8. Liberation, Multiculturalism, and Professional Education
ZAHER WAHAB
9. Citizens and the Conduct of Ecological Science: A Response to the "Tragedy of the Commons"
CHARLES R. AULT, JR.
10. The Internationalization of Professional Education
JACK CORBETT
Part III: Reflections on a Graduate Core Program
11. The Feminine in Public Service Professions: Implications for Graduate Instruction
MARY HENNING-STOUT
12. Gender and Professional/Liberal Knowledge: Men's Perspectives
JAMES WALLACE
13. Learning about Organizational Cultures and Professional Competence
GORDON LINDBLOOM
14. The Evolution of a Graduate School: The Effects of Developing a Liberal Arts Core
CAROLYN L. BULLARD
Afterword: The Search for Personal and Professional Meaning
KEN KEMPNER
References
Contributors
Index