What might be lost and gained in the processes of professionalisation Sally Aldridge ESRC Seminar on Careers Work in the United Kingdom 31 st March 2011 The caring professions What makes a profession ID: 373734
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Can ‘caring’ occupations become professions?What might be lost and gained in the processes of professionalisation?
Sally Aldridge
ESRC Seminar on Careers Work in the United Kingdom
31
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March 2011Slide2
The ‘caring’ professionsSlide3
What makes a profession?A monopoly on exclusive skills and areas of competence. No one else can do the job.
Recognition of this monopoly by the state, the public and in the workplace.Slide4
The traditional traits of a profession
Monopoly over the activity of the profession
Systematic theoretical knowledge
Cohesion and professional community
Professional association
Authority recognised by client group
High social status and prestige
Profession is organised
Legitimated status
Long period of training
Socialisation of entrants
Control over entry to the profession
Autonomy in practice
Ideal of service for the public good
Codes of ethics and conduct
Control over the behaviour of membersSlide5
The origins of professions in the UKSlide6
What might be lost and gained in the processes of professionalisation?Slide7
Boundary settingUnclear and permeable boundaries
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insecure professional identitySlide8
Exclusion
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Recognition, status and reward
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Selling out?
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“Do we wish to join that procession, or don’t we? On what terms shall we join the procession? And above all, where is it leading us, the procession of educated men? .... What are these professions and why should we make money out of them? Where in short is it leading us, the procession of the sons of educated men?”
Virginia Woolf,
Three Guineas 1938/1966 pp.62-3