The Quest for (Higher) Professional Status: Second Thoughts

Autor/in	Baizerman, Michael
Titel	The Quest for (Higher) Professional Status: Second Thoughts
Quelle	In: Child & Youth Services, 34 (2013) 2, S.186-195 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-935X
DOI	10.1080/0145935X.2013.785903
Schlagwörter	Social Agencies; Professional Recognition; Professional Education; Professional Identity; Competency Based Education; Quality of Working Life; Intellectual History; Best Practices; Youth Programs; Social Work; Caseworker Approach + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialisationsagentur; Berufsausbildung; Education; Competence; Competency; Competency-based education; Unterricht; Kompetenzorientierte Methode; Arbeitsqualität; Geistesgeschichte; Jugendsofortprogramm; Soziale Arbeit
Abstract	The sociopolitical movement to enhance youth workers' occupational status and related emoluments strategically links this goal to competency-based assessment. While the goals of improved conditions, remuneration, and career opportunities for workers is supported, the joining of those goals to both professionalization and in turn competency-based worker assessments is not. Brief analyses of the logic and practice of competency-based assessments, of the medieval guilds as a historical source of these and of worker and market control, of youth work as a social agency-based semi-profession, the current status of profession as a symbol of social status and authority, and a quick overview of Aristotle's phronesis and its relevance to youth work practice provide sources for the author's second thoughts about the ideational frame and argument for this sociopolitical and sociolegal movement. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10