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Higher Education and Work-Related Learning from Professionalism to Professionality

  • Maura Striano

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,
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Maura Striano

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

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© 2018 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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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

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© 2018 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-6453-672-9

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978-88-6453-671-2

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978-88-6453-672-9

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Studies on Adult Learning and Education

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2704-596X

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2704-5781

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