Overview

How important are the practical experiences through which our neophyte professionals are prepared for the real world of work? P.E.P.E. (Practical Experiences in Professional Education) Inc has generated this book with, not only, the aim of disseminating knowledge through networks within the professional silos of distinctive disciplines but to generate a space and platform for generic concepts and practices that can be examined and incorporated across many disciplines.

Mentoring, ethics and transitioning into the profession are explored in the book but each chapter illustrates how PEPE Inc has within its community a culture of engagement, experimentation and deep thinking that connects all aspects of learning in the field. Ken Zeichner's research clearly shows that field experiences are important occasions for professional learning rather than merely times for pre-service candidates to demonstrate or apply things previously learned. Susan Groundwater-Smith acknowledges PEPE INC on being a leader in supporting the evolution of a developmental practicum curriculum in the initial education of professionals, mainly in the field of education, but also with respect to the preparation of health and allied professionals, those preparing to become social workers and even in professional practices such as engineering and architecture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement to PEPE Inc

Foreword

• Practical Experiences in Professional Education (PEPE Inc): a sentimental reflection
  Allan Yarrow

Chapter 1

• Perspectives on Practical Experiences in Professional Education: an editorial and introduction
  Jan Millwater

Chapter 2

• Rethinking the Connections Between Campus Courses and Field Experiences in College and University-based Teacher Education
  Ken Zeichner

Chapter 3

• Illuminating Partnerships in Professional Education: Critical Inquiry and Workplace Learning
  Susan Groundwater-Smith

Chapter 4

• Professional learning communities: Leaders, mentors, and like-minded professionals
  Peter Hudson

Chapter 5

• Mentoring across the professions: Some issues and challenges
  Lisa C Ehrich, Brian Hansford and John F Ehrich

Chapter 6

• Enhancing professional ethics: Service-learning in teacher education
  Megan Kimber, Suzanne Carrington, Louise Mercer & Derek Bland

Chapter 7

• 'Seeing the face of the other': a professional qualities approach to interprofessional working between doctors and teachers in England
  Janet Goepel

Chapter 8

• Students' perception of field placement in professional competency and identity construction: Transdisciplinary study in education, health and engineering
  Andreja Istenic Starcic

Chapter 9

• Transitioning to practice across the professions: Some lessons from the teaching profession
  Leanne Crosswell & Denise Beutel

Chapter 10

• Creating Success Together: Exploring the Graduate Nurse Journey
  Alexandra Spencer

Biographies

Index