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What is Continuing Professional Development

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Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive Organizations
A learning process for professionally qualified workers.
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Collective CPD: Professional Learning in a Law Firm
Jeff Gold (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) and Richard Thorpe (Leeds University, UK)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-176-6.ch003
Abstract
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is usually conceived as a planned and formulated process for individual members of professional associations. This chapter, by contrast, examines professional learning as a collective and distributed process, taking a whole firm, as the unit of analysis. Cultural Historical Activity Theory is used to work with a law firm. The results show inherent tensions and contradiction in a process of knowledge sharing and practice improvement.
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The Promise of Peace Leadership for Physician Professional Identity Formation: Charting the Need for Faculty Development
Programing and resources for professionals towards maintenance, enhancement, and development of knowledge and skills necessary to continue practice in a professional context (e.g., medicine, nursing, law, and engineering).
Published in Chapter: The Promise of Peace Leadership for Physician Professional Identity Formation: Charting the Need for Faculty Development; From: Evolution of Peace Leadership and Practical Implications
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Development of Non-Technical Skills Required by Future Global Practitioners in MSE and Corrosion Engineering
Post first degree learning experiences which is conducted by self-motivated engineers to retain and develop new competences.
Published in Chapter: Development of Non-Technical Skills Required by Future Global Practitioners in MSE and Corrosion Engineering; From: Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Materials Science and Corrosion Engineering Education
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Aligning Technology with Workforce and Organizational Development
A range of activities and approaches that professionals can undertake to manage and record self-directed learning, continue capacity, develop their career, and continue to learn and update skills so that they are able to work to regulated standards effectively, safely and efficiently.
Published in Chapter: Aligning Technology with Workforce and Organizational Development; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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