- Employability & Competences
- Edited by Vanna Boffo, Monica Fedeli
Higher Education and Work-Related Learning from Professionalism to Professionality
- Maura Striano
- © 2018 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-672-9.13
Within a complex economic, political, and social scenario that requires high-level competencies as well as increasingly active citizenship, the European and international agenda for higher education needs to be renewed and re-articulated according to new goals and priorities. Higher education should offer students the opportunity to develop aptitudes and acquire advanced but flexible competencies and skills that go beyond mere professionalism and instead focus on the development of a sound professionality
- Keywords:
- professionality,
- professional epistemology,
- work-related learning,
University of Naples Federico II, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-7398-3288
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Higher Education and Work-Related Learning from Professionalism to Professionality
Authors
Maura Striano
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-672-9.13
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2018
Copyright Information
© 2018 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Employability & Competences
Book Subtitle
Innovative Curricula for New Professions
Editors
Vanna Boffo, Monica Fedeli
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
510
Publication Year
2018
Copyright Information
© 2018 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-672-9
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-671-2
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-672-9
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-119-6
Series Title
Studies on Adult Learning and Education
Series ISSN
2704-596X
Series E-ISSN
2704-5781