Educating for professional responsibility - a normative dimension of higher education

dc.creator	Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke
dc.date	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:11:59Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:11:59Z
dc.identifier	1102-6472
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/dd5c3680e6b94fce82eb8c6e7cb4ed06
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/14865
dc.description	This paper has the politically defined mandate of higher education as its starting point to highlight and discuss contemporary challenges in relation to its normative dimension that are illustrated by examples from Norwegian higher education. A central question in the first part of the paper is whether there has been a change in the public understanding of the normative responsibility of higher education. Is there a move towards an understanding of the main responsibility of higher education as that of providing society with technical expertise and professionals who give precedence to financial interests, entrepreneurial and innovative ideas − at the expense of moral and civic values? In the second part of the paper, it is argued that greater awareness of the normative dimension of higher education is called for – here illustrated with the case of educating for professional responsibility. It is suggested that a teaching approach based on the model of deliberative communication provides an appropriate means of increasing moral consciousness of professional responsibility. Students may gain greater ability tosee and critically examine the moral and societal implications of their future professional responsibility if issues of professional responsibility are linked to the societal frameworks in which professionals are to operate.
dc.language	Swedish
dc.language	Danish
dc.language	Norwegian
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Örebro University
dc.relation	http://www.oru.se/Extern/Forskning/Forskningsmiljoer/HumUS/Utbildning_och_Demokrati/Tidskriften/2008/Nr_2/Tone%20Dyrdal%20Solbrekke.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1102-6472
dc.source	Utbildning & Demokrati : Tidsskrift för Didaktik och Utbildningspolitik, Vol 17, Iss 2, Pp 73-96 (2008)
dc.subject	normative dimension of higher education
dc.subject	professional responsibility
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Educating for professional responsibility - a normative dimension of higher education
dc.type	article