Abstract
This paper discusses a professional development programme which facilitated the negotiation of professional identity in a changing field of practice. It describes a pedagogy which drew on ideas of social learning in communities of practice and which was an intentional discursive move to project some discourses and resist others, in a contested space created by hybrid policy discourses. The value of a Virtual Learning Environment as a mediating tool is considered. Finally, some evidence of new professional identities - of practitioners becoming activist professionals - is presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Educational Journeys and Changing Lives |
| Subtitle of host publication | Adult Student Experiences. Volume 2 |
| Editors | Barbara Merrill, Jose González Monteagudo |
| Place of Publication | Seville |
| Publisher | Edición Digital@3 |
| Pages | 362-371 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9788469315545 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |