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Coaches in youth sport stand as crucial actors in the implementation of policies and rights. But there are expectations, stresses, and pressures on the coaches from parents, the culture, sport governance, local organizations, as well as the children, that work implicitly or explicitly, either as supports or obstructions. Thus, the vital aim of this article is to present and discuss the dilemmas in acting as a coach in youth football, at a minor level – at a 'street-level', Hence, Michael Lipsky's study on several professions (in service and welfare) and, especially, his thesis on 'street-level bureaucracy' stands basically as the important influence in the design, presentation and final discussion and statements. The article is grounded in an empirical study, labelled as FC Countryside, which embodies and exemplifies a large number of Swedish football clubs in the lower divisions. These coaches in youth sports are regularly recruited and engaged as volunteers. Despite this position, due to sport policies, demands on skills and knowledge and the implementation of rights, they are subject to an increasing professionalization process of football in general. The discussion, due to the empirical findings, present the coaches as semi-professionals, and as 'street-level coaches', in the perspectives of Lipsky. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Coaching in Scandinavia is characterized by tensions between voluntary ideals and increased demands for professionalization. This paper examines the origins and content of such demands, how voluntary run and governed football clubs translate them into practices, and the impact of professionalization on the coach role. Within an organizational perspective, our analysis is framed by institutional theory and a translation perspective and draw on data from interviews with representatives of Norwegian football clubs. The results show how demands for professionalization are translated into (new) practices in football clubs and lead to (more) professionalization of the coach role. In a 'top-down' trajectory, professionalization is characterized by bureaucratization driven by a need to satisfy the Norwegian Football Federation and Norwegian Elite Football. In a 'bottom-up' trajectory, professionalization is characterized by individualization driven by pressures from members to tailor-make the club's service offer. In a 'trickle-sideways' trajectory, professionalization is characterized by marketization driven by the establishment of private football academies that exert pressure on football clubs to adapt to a more customer-oriented membership base. In conclusion, this examination highlights the multidimensional character of the professionalization of the coach role and emphasizes the need for further research on the broader ramifications of professionalization in contexts characterized by voluntary ideals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the introduction of a national system for upper-secondary sport schools in Sweden in the 1970s, these institutions have been an important environment for developments in training and coaching. This is particularly true for cross-country skiing, where these schools quickly became an obligatory passage point. Coaches at the sport schools, often formally employed as PE teachers, were among the first professionalized endurance sport coaches in Sweden. This article examines how communities of practice have influenced the professionalization process of XC ski coaches at Swedish sport schools. The results show how being part of this community is conditioned on personal experience of active learning, historically as a skier yourself and currently as a coach who participates in the everyday work. The strong communities of practice have enabled coaches to maintain a high degree of self--governance and ensured that experiential knowledge remain important in relation to scientific knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we examine the professionalization coaching in Norway, focusing on the years between 1990 and 2020. During this period, Norway started to perform comparatively well in international elite sport. Data are drawn from two relatively separate fields of Norwegian elite sport, namely elite football for men and the Norwegian organization for elite sports' (Olympiatoppen) programme for future elite sport coaches. In our analysis, we rely on two sets of concepts: Giddens' notion of reflexivity in late modern society, and Foucault's concept of pastoral power. When concepts and methods from both the natural and the social sciences enter the clutches of elite sport, academic perspectives transform into recipes that aim to help athletes achieve more. The more the coach knows about the athlete, the better she can plan for training sessions. On the other hand, it creates a risk of manipulation and abuse of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Until the 1960s, the elite coach was shadowed by elected representatives and amateur players. Since then, the professionalization process has transferred power to the coaches. As this process is intertwined with the commercialization of sport, the aim of this article is to advance the understanding of the impact of commercialization on the elite coach in a Scandinavian context. Through the lens of governmentality, and the Swedish men's elite football coach as the example, the study shows how commercialization has impacted the coach's power and responsibilities in the club, the relationships with the athletes, and with external stakeholders. The study draws on the board minutes and annual reports of a football club, education material from the Swedish coach education programme, and interviews with six former coaches. The results show that the governmentality of commercialization has placed the coach in the limelight, that they are responsible for guiding the players' actions to enhance their economic value, and are the club's outward face to convince external stakeholders to invest in football. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent rise in professionalisation and institutionalisation of competitive surfing has resulted in a dramatic increase in the use of alternative training modalities. These are often employed in an attempt to increase exposure to surf-like activities when appropriate ocean conditions are not available. It is commonly accepted that practice sessions should be grounded in theory, with training content informed by a clear scientific rationale. Despite this, research is yet to offer surfing coaches and surfers effective strategies to assist in implementing appropriate 'off water' training modalities. It is widely accepted that integrating a representative learning design is crucial towards the transfer of performance to competition environments. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to promote representative learning design (RLD) as a contemporary, principled framework that can underpin the creation of surfing training design and performance. Examples of constraints relevant to surfing are considered, and the efficacy and rationale of popular training methods are challenged. Finally, practical implications and coaching tools to underpin the implementation of representative learning design in surf training are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Professional team male-dominated sports have been built on masculine values; however, these values are challenged by the increasing number of women athletes entering this workplace. In this research, we explore the suitability and gender appropriateness of existing management processes and practices through three women's professional and semiprofessional leagues. Drawing on a feminist perspective of continuum of care, players (n = 36) and organizational representatives (n = 28) were interviewed to gain insights into how athletes and organizations contend with their rapidly evolving workplaces. Framed around the values of affirmation, empowerment, and belonging, the continuum of care contrasts players' everyday experiences of care with how organizations administer care. The research contributes through application of the feminist continuum of care. We present considerations for the management of female professional athletes in ways that are careful and an alternative value system that is affirmative, inclusive, and empowering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the professionalization of teachers in the context of unforeseen situations, in particular the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. It is concluded that martial law in Ukraine has affected the priorities of teacher professionalization, as the priorities in the mission and professional activity of the teacher have changed. In the article, the professionalization of a teacher is considered as a process aimed at developing such qualities as adaptability, stress resistance, flexibility, creativity, critical thinking, and provides for such teacher training that provides awareness of a wide range of social needs and challenges to the country, society and the teacher generated by the war, equipping the teacher with knowledge, technology, new competencies that allow him to work, maintain and improve the quality of education in the conditions of uncertainty. Two priorities in the teacher's mission are highlighted: preserving the generation that will further shape the future of Ukraine (professional activity and professional training of teachers should be considered through the prism of preserving the health and lives of children and youth); ensuring the maximum resource of the teacher's own state for professional activity. The challenges to the professionalization of teachers under martial law are analyzed, in particular, the acquisition of new competencies, primarily digital, overcoming the educational losses of students, mastering new forms and methods of teaching in the virtual space (remote, correspondent, mixed, hybrid, mobile, etc.), mastering the technologies of creative development of students, in particular, the expansion of educational and creative tasks to increase the psychorehabilitation effect of the educational process.

In this article, we engage with recent calls to research parliaments as gendered workplaces, which build on earlier international discursive turn and institutional reform initiatives towards gender-sensitive parliaments. Our engagement explores this workplace framing and how well it translates across pluralised, global parliamentary paradigms. We develop our arguments with a special focus on the Indian parliament as a gendered institution. Viewing the parliament as a gendered workplace through an intersectional lens, we show how gender dynamics and institutional configurations of power are embedded in class, race, and caste inequalities but can shift over time through reflexive challenges. We organise our discussion through two approaches to studying parliaments as workplaces--vernacular and professional--to argue that paying attention to these approaches critically can contribute to sensitising the workplace debate to a more capacious, theoretically nuanced reading of parliaments as more gender-sensitive, gender-inclusive, and gender-responsive representative institutions. In outlining the case for paying attention to the vernacular critically, we ask whether such an understanding can help to effectively bridge local and global understandings of parliaments as workplaces and institutionalise them. In studying professionalisation, we examine the paradox that professionalisation could lead to the depoliticisation of parliaments, which might affect the nature of gender-sensitivity that is being institutionalised. This analysis thus brings together institutional, postcolonial, and intersectional strands of work to think anew about gender-equal political practices in representative bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines bureaucracies using a novel dataset of Chilean central government employees from 2006 to 2020. Unlike perception-based sources, this dataset provides objective, disaggregated, and longitudinal insights into bureaucrats' characteristics and careers. The authors validate it against official employment statistics and conduct an exploratory and descriptive analysis, presenting six descriptive findings about the Chilean bureaucracy that cannot be discovered using available aggregate data. The analysis reveals significant degrees of personnel stability and professionalization in the civil service, but with considerable rigidity in careers and substantial interagency heterogeneity in turnover, wages, and exposure to political cycles. These findings suggest that the Chilean national bureaucracy is mostly well developed along Weberian lines, though not uniformly so. These measurements also serve as a benchmark for comparing other Latin American bureaucracies in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Numerous reviews have synthesized the empirical research on the effectiveness of teacher education, highlighting teacher education effectiveness research (TEER) as an emerging research paradigm. Our systematic search identified 27 reviews related to TEER, wherein teacher education is broadly understood as comprising all stages of teacher professionalization—namely, initial teacher education, teacher induction, and teacher professional development. In reviewing these reviews, we carry out a synthesis of existing research on TEER. Guided by four research questions (RQ), we focused major frameworks (RQ1), outcome measures (RQ2), processes (RQ3), and central research gaps (RQ4). Highlights: Only few reviews provide a background or macro framing, whereas most reviews apply TEER for examining a specific topic (RQ1); outcome measures often relate to the notion of teacher competence, making increased competence the true outcome of TEER (RQ2); coursework is the most dominant category of characteristics-forming processes (RQ3); the frameworks underlying the outcome measures appear to be an object of criticism on a theoretical but even more on a methodological level. Building on these findings, we suggest a processes-and-criteria classification (PCC) grounded in basic distinctions of the various studies synthesized by the reviews. We discuss perspectives on how this classification may provide an orientation for future TEER studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Physiotherapists interested in the profession's future have turned in recent years to historical evidence to understand how the physical therapies were practiced before the advent of modern healthcare. However, studies to date suggest that their practice was largely confined to social elites, and those from working-class or poor populations rarely, if ever, experienced them. To test this theory further, this study focuses on British sailors during the Napoleonic wars (1803–1815). Utilizing historical and semi-fictional accounts, this study shows that healthcare on board naval fighting ships concentrated almost entirely on the prevention of disease, and the medical and surgical management of acute trauma. Even though sailors experienced shocking levels of traumatic injury, none appear to have experienced any form of physical therapy. This study supports the argument that prior to the 20th century, the physical therapies were luxuries available primarily to those with surplus time and money, and that widespread access to physiotherapy has relied on state-sponsored universal health coverage. It follows, then, that the decline of universalized healthcare may have profound implications for many marginal groups in society, as well as the physiotherapy profession itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The year 2024 marks 70 years since graduation of the first candidates in revised examinations for Fellowship of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons (FFARCS). Here we review the progress of specialisation and professionalisation of anaesthesia in the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dynamics connected to professionalization are often analysed from an individual perspective highlighting individual professionals' struggle for recognition as a professional. This paper looks at the organizational context and its effects on teachers' professional status in the wake of NPM inspired reforms in Finland. Despite the quantitative nature of the Finnish school audit, the design of the evaluation presents a critical translation of the knowledge claims often made in New Public Management audits. By looking at the original research reports and discussions on the audit system, this paper shows how the Finnish school audit conceptualised education as a societal subsystem and school audit as a tool for linking education with other subsystems. The Finnish school audit produces data for educational policy development and the teachers' own use. The article suggests that maintaining occupational professionalism requires both the presence of knowledge for professional application and the absence of knowledge yielding to market or managerial interference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work reviews the approach of the ethics of care in education and analyzes how the foundations of this ethicality contribute to the dialogical construction of teachers' professional identity (attribution, projection, development and transformation). Professional identity is questioned when care is considered an epistemological and ethical approach to educational relationships, thereby encouraging reflection on the interactive components of identity (projection, disposition, worldview and action plans) and on the meaning of professional competence. This reflection produces transversal implications for teacher professionalization processes, which in turn results in the identification of training devices such as narratives, conversations and reflective and operational practices that help to turn the identity and the moral work of teaching into the central topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article deals with the contributions of five women to the introduction of social casework in probation assistance in the 1960s. These women, including Ruth Bang and Dora von Caemmerer from Germany, Rosa Dworschak from Austria, and Cora Baltussen and Marie Kamphuis from the Netherlands, made significant contributions to the modernization of German social work and paved the way for group work in probation assistance. The women were part of a transnational European knowledge network and participated in international conferences organized by the United Nations' European Social Welfare Program. Ruth Bang was a influential figure in probation assistance and published numerous publications on social casework and supervision. The text describes the work of probation officers and their training in social casework. It is mentioned that supervision was considered the only way to properly learn casework. Ruth Bang and Dora von Caemmerer were two important individuals who taught casework and supervision in Germany in the 1960s. The training of Albert Bickel and Cora Baltussen, who were also active in probation assistance, is also discussed. Rosa Dworschak is mentioned as another important person who had a psychoanalytic approach to casework. The text describes the professional backgrounds of Cora Baltussen and Marie Kamphuis, two women who made significant contributions to the development of social casework in Germany. Baltussen was a Catholic entrepreneur who established further education programs for casework and supervision in the Netherlands. Kamphuis was a social worker who advocated for professionalization of social work and published a textbook on social casework. Both women had different approaches and were supported by different networks, but they contributed to establishing social casework in Germany. The article focuses on the early days of probation assistance in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is mentioned that there was a lack of competent teaching staff and foreign experts were in high demand. The United Nations, foundations, and political programs promoted professional exchange. During this phase, women played a crucial role in the development of theoretical concepts and their implementation in practice. It is emphasized that the United Nations made a significant contribution to networking and Europeanization. It is also mentioned that the English probation concept influenced the discourse on the design of probation assistance in the Federal Republic. [Extracted from the article]

London experienced rapid urban growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with much of its housing built speculatively. These houses have often been regarded as an example of vernacular architecture, made by craftsmen using standard templates, so-called pattern books, without an architect or otherwise professional design. This article investigates the question of who designed these buildings by evaluating a sample of recently catalogued building applications in Richmond between 1886 and 1939. The study sheds new light on roles and relationships in the design of speculative housing of the period, which can be seen as part of a broader process of professionalisation in construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The changing class structure of cities has been a topic of considerable importance and debate for over a 150 years, since the industrial revolution created a large industrial proletariat in many western cities. But the rise of post-industrial society, the decline of the manufacturing industry, a shrinking industrial working class, and the growth of the professional and managerial class from the 1970s onwards has provoked fresh debate about this, as has the emergence of gentrification in many cities. This paper looks at the changing social class structure of London from 2001 to 2021 using data from the population Census. It shows that the higher professional and managerial class continued its long term growth after a pause in 2001–2011. But the number and proportions of small employers, the self-employed and routine workers have also grown. There is therefore continuing professionalisation but also 'asymmetric polarisation'. The paper also examines the geography of social class change by borough over the period and shows that while the professional and managerial class grew in all boroughs, suggesting a gradual upward class change across London, it was highest in the most gentrified inner London boroughs. However, the percentage point growth of the self-employed and routine groups was generally higher in the mostly suburban boroughs where professional and managerial class percentage point change growth was smallest (and vice versa) which suggests an intensified social class sorting and divergence across London with the lower class groups growing most rapidly in suburban outer London where housing costs are less. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of the article is to substantiate the generations' method for political analysis. In this sense, the article clarifies the conceptual and theoretical framework of this approach; shows an example of research applied to the study of political leadership, and exposes empirical data and ideas that support the usefulness of the generational view. The writing has five sections. The introduction investigates the meanings of the word "generation", focusing on the examination of the meaning linked to the sociopolitical arena. The second section describes the foundations of the theory of generations and proposes a qualitative methodology for the generational analysis of the political field. The third section presents a study on the generations of the presidents of the Government of Spain, between 1977 and 2023, showing a proposal for a generational classification of such presidents. The fourth section exposes an analysis of the generational relationships between the presidents, and between them and their respective government teams. The analysis highlights the relevance of second generation of presidents (González and Aznar) in which a generational habitus appears that tends towards the professionalization of politics in the following generations. Finally, the conclusions emphasize the advantages of the generational method to make contextualized studies of sociopolitical phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the use of social media by municipalities in the Region of Murcia, Spain. It highlights the importance of these platforms as tools for communication and citizen participation, but also points out the challenges they entail, such as polarization and misinformation. It proposes an index to evaluate the professionalization in social media management and offers recommendations to improve communication with citizens. It also discusses the importance of the presence and activity on social media of mayors in the Region of Murcia, and emphasizes the importance of effective social media management by municipalities. It concludes by mentioning that social media management by local governments will continue to be a dynamic and challenging field in the future. [Extracted from the article]

The persistence of multiple educational pathways into the nursing profession continues to occupy scholars internationally. In the Netherlands, various groups within the Dutch healthcare sector have tried to differentiate nursing practice on the basis of educational backgrounds for over 50 years. Proponents argue that such reforms are needed to retain bachelor‐trained nurses, improve quality of care and strengthen nurses' position in the sector. Opponents have actively resisted reforms because they would mainly benefit bachelor‐trained nurses and neglect practical experience and technical skills. This historical case study aims to provide insight in this apparent stalemate. Our analysis of this debate is informed by literature on institutional work and current debates within the historiography of nursing. This study contributes to a better understanding of this contemporary debate by examining a broader timeframe than is usually studied, and by highlighting nurses' roles in complex processes of change. We argue that, rather than being stuck in their professional development, different groups of nurses have forged their own path forward in their professional development, albeit via different strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Because I have so little time in which to tackle such a basic and important issue I shall limit myself to sketching the fundamental contradictions and pitfalls that are to be found underneath the smooth presentations of this new discipline of counselling psychology. It seems to me all the more important to take this opportunity to ask some pertinent questions and challenge some of the preconceptions around the aims and objectives of counselling psychology as it will be tempting for most of us to launch headlong into the professionalization of the field in order to achieve credibility. In making these few remarks I shall therefore speak from the perspective of the philosopher as defined by Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations, where he declares that "the work of a philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose" (Wittgenstein, 1953). My purpose will be clear in a minute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This study explores the perceptions surrounding the work of typhlologists in Colombia. Methodology: The fieldwork was conducted with three population groups: professionals in typhlology, professional blind adults, and blind youth from district educational institutions in the city of Bogota, Colombia. Semi-structured interviews were used as the primary instrument for data collection. Results: It is evident that, although national regulations highlight the importance of typhlology in inclusive education, there is no official profile stablished by the Ministry of National Education in which the field of action, characteristics and specific functions are established. In other words, there is no professionalization of the typhlologist's work. This means that any professional with a minimum of experience in relation to the educational process can accompany the visually impaired population. This could affect the quality of support provided to people with this type of disability in the country. Conclusions: It is necessary to recognize the importance of typhlology as a profession that contributes to inclusive education, to the extent that it addresses all the dimensions of visual impairment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the statements, expressed through their documents, on teacher professionalization of three international organizations: the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture; the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture-Unesco and the Inter American Development Bank. The purpose was to identify their explicit and implicit stances on this issue, in the understanding that their discourses, policies and practices of teacher professionalization are part of the processes of production of the social in general and particularly of the educational field. A content analysis of the selected documents was carried out from a critical point of view to the discourse. The results show that a hybrid position on professionalization prevails, although mostly characterized by a teacher-school managerial approach. The conclusions invite us to consider hybridism as a predominant feature of policy-oriented documents addressed to multiple audiences and contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Educational research after the COVID-19 health crisis" analyzes the effects of the pandemic on education and the importance of researching the return to in-person classes. It highlights the lack of preparation of schools and educational systems to implement effective pedagogical models. The need to consider the differences between educational levels and the role of teachers in decision-making is emphasized. Additionally, the topics addressed in issue 102 of the Mexican Journal of Educational Research are mentioned, including teacher professionalization, school inequality, household education expenditure, and the impact of the pandemic on the educational trajectories of secondary school students. [Extracted from the article]

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With the help of printed and manuscript resources, in this article, I aim to reconstruct the social network of Sámuel Brassai, while also identifying his strategies and conceptions as an editor of the magazine called Vasárnapi Újság (Sunday Paper), established on the initiative of Farkas Sándor Bölöni. This analysis helps to understand the process by which Brassai became a node of his network, then an eccentric person, tracing his orientation in scientific life and his involvement in the education of society on the pages of the magazine, in the decades preceding the professionalization and differentiation of the scientific disciplines, when he was not yet perceived as the last polymath of Transylvania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In a rapidly changing and challenging world, teachers as influential social agents can play an important and promising role to guide through but also bring about positive change to individuals and society as a whole. This potential stresses the importance of professionalization of teachers and the need for elaborate learning settings to equip (future) teachers as psychologically literate and reflective practitioners who systematically reflect and integrate practice and (psychological) theory. As part of the preservice teachers' psychology curriculum, we implemented a theory–practice learning setting in their educational foundation studies that aims at fostering preservice teachers' psychological literacy. Specifically, to reflect their own and other's behavior and to apply their psychological knowledge of learning and counseling principles into real-life counseling sessions. This study addresses the didactical concept of teaching psychology to non-psychology students and the results from its evaluation. In a quasi-experimental pre-posttest design with comparison group (N intervention = 46; N comparison = 102), we analyzed the effects of the seminar on the preservice teachers' reflexivity, their beliefs about the theory–practice relationship and their agency. Results indicate that beliefs about the theory–practice relationship and the levels of reflection significantly increase through the practice task in the intervention group, but reflexivity and agency does not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

OBJECTIVES: Aim of this article is to highlight results of the German postCOVID@owl project and answer the questions: how professionals acting in and post pandemic were perceived by social workers and to what extent participatory approaches contribute to their professionalization. THEORETICAL BASE: Social work in hospitals characterize an overall responsibility for complex problems and representing their 'diffuse' role and tasks in interdisciplinarity. Covid-19 offers a blueprint to generate knowledge about social work and its profession in hospitals, and identify practices and framework conditions in "crisis learning". METHODS: Data collection and analysis by participatory and qualitative mixed methods, based on transformative research. This article presents results from the ongoing process: interviews and participatory developed recommendations for action in a vision workshop. OUTCOMES: Hospital social workers perceive themselves as conflicted actors between case complexity, pandemic consequences, and the hospital. They are confronted with balancing economics, casework in time pressure and own ethical values. Professionalization runs the risk of taking a backseat. Recommendations address policy, hospital management, social service leaders, and hospital social workers. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: Hospital social work is an important profession in overcoming challenges in healthcare. A clear framework is needed. Otherwise, hospital social workers run the risk to be ground between management and ethical values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generating momentum for activist campaigns on complicated economic issues is difficult, especially in a transnational context. So, how did activists get action on tax justice and create a movement that has changed global tax policy? Drawing on 20 years of para-ethnographic fieldwork with the Tax Justice Network, we suggest that activists initially engaged in 'identity switching' tactics to access professional or policy arenas from a footing in one identity, to then switch identities to activate policy shifts. A first-generation leveraged multiple professional identities to access forums, build credibility and introduce a tax lexicon to activists and policymakers. These tactics were not, however, replicable, leading a second generation to concentrate on 'identity fixing', including professionalization and a tightening of organizational strategy over access and activation points. Here we theorize identity switching and fixing as underappreciated micro-foundations of transnational activism and demonstrate their importance for global economic justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Professionalization aims at closure, that is, having the monopoly protection of expertise for an occupation on the labour market and in organizations. Role congruity theory suggests that the translation of professionalization into organizational closure and reaching board membership is likely to be moderated by gender at the individual and the occupational level. We test this proposition focusing on Human Resource Management (HRM), an occupation with a long history of professionalization attempts. Using a sample of 3276 organizations embedded in 34 countries with varying professionalization levels between countries, results show that professionalization of HRM at the country level is positively related to closure in organizations. The positive relationship is weaker for female HR directors and high proportions of women in the HRM occupation in a country. Organizational closure, in contrast, is negatively related to board representation but increases the likelihood of board membership in countries with high proportions of women in the HRM occupation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The professionalisation, institutionalisation and standardisation of transitional justice has often been critiqued for pushing more informal, vernacular or experimental approaches off the radar. While this concern is legitimate and needs to be addressed, this article explores the continued relevance of standardised approaches, and of a shared language of transitional justice more specifically. I develop this argument against the background of recent events in the Philippines where, in May 2022, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the former dictator, won the presidential elections. In this article I show that there has been a multiplicity of context-sensitive, vernacular and experimental transitional justice initiatives to deal with intersecting and multilayered legacies of violence, but that what has been missing is an overarching framework as expressed through the discourse of transitional justice, and the potential to forge collaborations and coalitions on the basis thereof. The case of the Philippines hints at the potential of a more ecological understanding of transitional justice in which justice actors involved in standardised and vernacular, formal and informal, state and non-state, top-down and bottom-up approaches recognise each other and certain shared objectives through the shared language and normativity of transitional justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the transformation of public employee pension investment in the United States, from investing public funds in public infrastructure before the 1950s, to investing public funds in private securities in the years after. Three factors drove this change. First, motivated financial professionals convinced states to adopt the "prudent man rule," a legal investment standard that emphasized professional management and maximum financial returns. Second, declining bond yields during World War II led public pension managers to reconceptualize the political goals of pension investment, from balancing retiree returns against low-cost public infrastructure, to maximizing employee benefits by achieving maximum returns in financial markets. Third, public officials hired private asset managers to undertake new investment strategies. These professionals then used their influence to pursue further pension liberalization. Ultimately, US financialization was not a break, but a continuous process through which government officials intentionally used financial markets to enhance public social provision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Working-class health cultures before the National Health Service have long been of scholarly interest but those related to oral health are chronically underexamined. This article examines one important aspect of this history—tooth pulling—in early twentieth-century Lancashire. By highlighting the dynamics of market supply and demand, it demonstrates how and why the tooth pulling services of non-orthodox practitioners called dental mechanics remained popular despite the increasing monopolization of oral health by dentists. Dentists characterized mechanics as quacks, but working-class Lancastrians sought out these mechanics because they formed a trusted part of their communities. This demonstration of a population's preference for unorthodox over orthodox practitioners provides a much-needed counter-narrative to professionalization in oral health and highlights the significance of geographically specific traditions over the values of medicine and science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ministry of Emergency Management of the People's Republic of China was established on the basis of the original Work Safety Supervision and Management Department. In addition to assuming the responsibilities of the two committees and four departments, it also administers the four major industries such as non-coal mines, metallurgical industry and trade, hazardous chemicals, fireworks, and firecrackers. The comprehensive coordination quality of the emergency management personnel, and professional quality are constantly improved. This paper conducts a study on the Professionalization of China's Emergency Management Team, and provides a research basis for further developing the Emergency Management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of the contemporary history of geography through the prism of the sociology of professions makes it possible to explore geographers' professional paths as objects of sociohistorical enquiry. Through the analysis of archival documents, three periods have been delineated, thus showing the contextual nature of the debates surrounding the presence of geographers in the workplace. From 1945 to 1962, we observe the gradual division of geography into three categories of distinct social realms: schools, university, and the professional environment. From 1963 to 1978, we witness the rise and fall of a controversial collective project, namely the foundation of a provincial accreditation board for Quebec's geographers. From 1979 to the end of the 20th century, we can notice the evolution of the "Association des géographes du Québec", which became the "Association professionnelle des géographes du Québec" in 1985. Despite the failure of the accreditation body project, the association reveals itself as a place of democratic representation and defence of applied geography and geographer's expertise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dissolution of the Soviet Union following the Cold War, which had a significant impact on the diplomatic relations of countries between 1945 and 1991, became an important turning point that enabled Turkey to play an active role in its foreign policy towards the Central Asian Turkic Republics. The period from 1991 to 2003 was characterized by the elevation of official relations to an ideological and emotional dimension, while the period from 2003 to 2023 witnessed the professionalization of strategies and the establishment of offensive diplomacy, leading to various diplomatic relations with these countries. The practices carried out in foreign policy directly influence paradiplomacy, which complements and runs parallel to the international relations of sub-national units. This study aims to examine the impact of foreign policy activities towards the Central Asian Turkic States on the paradiplomatic activities carried out by local units, focusing on economic and cultural cooperation, and to modestly contribute to the literature on Turkish local foreign policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Professionalism and Ethos: Monolithic-Personal Domains of Pedagogical Tact Building on a conceptual-historical reconstruction by Fageth (2022), this article argues that the recurrent thematic threads of pedagogical tact – serving as a mediation principle between theory and practice in professionalization debates on one hand, and as an ethically normative antinomy concept in pedagogical relationship formation on the other – should not be considered separately. Instead, following Petzelt (1961), they should be unified in the inter personal domain (relationship of the self to oneself) and intra personal domain (relationship between self and others) of a tactful character. To achieve this, it appears essential to transcend the traditional discourse that designates pedagogical tact as an ›agent‹ and systematically engage in elucidating a fallible »professional-ethical attitude« (Seichter 2015, p. 50) of tactful educators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Concept: Pedagogical Professionalism – Multi-level Theoretical Perspectives This article firstly presents general conceptual definitions of professional action, professionalism and professionalization and secondly the specifics of pedagogical professionalism. Thirdly – as an outlook – the thesis is developed that a theory of pedagogical professionalism requires a multi-level approach and the challenges for a verbalization of such a theory are outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we report on findings from an ongoing study of graduate students in linguistics regarding the approaches they take to develop as professional educators and how faculty and programs in linguistics can better support graduate student teaching professionalization. In focus groups with current linguistics graduate students, we identified three key themes: formal institutional training, mentor relationships (i.e. instructor and TA relationships), and peer relationships. Mentor relationships provide students with a range of experiences and degrees of support across faculty, which influences how they develop as educators. Peer socialization is also a critical component of growth and well-being, providing graduate student teachers with both practical guidance and ongoing emotional support. We illustrate this point with a case study--a weekly teaching journal club for graduate students within our own Linguistics program, which became an important space for pedagogical development. While our results point to graduate student success and resilience through socialization, they also illustrate a common issue of professionalization in academia: students gain professional skills through noninstitutional mechanisms. Teaching professionalization largely falls to the 'hidden curriculum', which puts students at a disadvantage, especially those from minoritized backgrounds (Smith 2013). We join other scholars in our field in calling for greater institutionalized mechanisms for professionalization to promote equitable access to vital skills for graduate students (Calhoun 2020). To that end, we conclude by suggesting ways in which faculty and departments can close this gap in graduate training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Après une dynamique à bas bruit, la phénoménologie prend de nouveau son essor en psychiatrie, tout comme en psychopathologie clinique. Elle devient particulièrement pertinente dans ces domaines où l'observation de phénomènes et la recherche de structures pour les organiser s'imposent comme outil clinique de compréhension du sujet. Il s'agit, d'une part, de parcourir le développement de la phénoménologie structurale dans les sciences humaines et médicales, d'autre part, d'explorer ses liens avec les processus de création afin de soutenir une réflexion pragmatique autour de la prise en charge des patients. Elle s'étaye sur le cas clinique d'un adolescent âgé de 14 ans présentant un syndrome de Williams et Beuren. Au terme de six années de prise en charge institutionnelle, il bénéficie d'un dispositif de huit séances d'art-thérapie visant à mettre son parcours en historicité pour accéder à une préprofessionnalisation. L'exploration repose sur une clinique évaluative en test/retest avec l'outil projectif Rorschach et les Grilles d'Analyse de Contenu basées sur l'Approche Phénoméno-Structurale (GACAPS) développées par L. Schiltz. Nous notons une amélioration de ses capacités d'attention et de socialisation ainsi qu'une augmentation de ses capacités à mobiliser son imaginaire et à accéder à l'élaboration de sa pensée. Toutefois, l'analyse phénoméno-structurale, par-delà des réponses créatives en nombre croissant, permet de repérer des angoisses envahissantes laissant craindre un basculement dans un fonctionnement psychotique en cette étape existentielle d'un rite de passage. La phénoménologie, au sens d'une méthode sensible, n'a de sens que si on la pratique dans le monde de la vraie vie en laquelle le « être dans le même paysage » devient autant outil diagnostique que processus de soin. Le Test de Rorschach avec les grilles d'analyse GACAPS, tout autant que la méthode IPSE (Processus inductif d'analyse de la structure de l'expérience vécue), en sont des outils pragmatiques apportant des résultats pertinents pour une clinique de la modernité. After a period of low-key development, phenomenology is once again gaining ground in psychiatry, as well as in clinical psychology and psychopathology. It is becoming particularly relevant in these fields, where the observation of phenomena and the quest for structures to organize them are very appropriate clinical tools for understanding the subject. The aims of this article are, on the one hand, to review the development of structural phenomenology in the human and medical sciences, and on the other hand, to explore its relationship to creative processes in order to support pragmatic reflection on patient care. This study is based on the clinical case of a 14-year-old adolescent with Williams & Beuren syndrome. After six years of institutional care, he participated in a program of eight sessions of art therapy designed to retrace his pathway for access to pre-professionalization. Our evaluation is based on a test/retest evaluative clinic using the Rorschach projective test and the Content Analysis Grids centered on the Phenomeno-structural Approach (GACAPS) developed by L. Schiltz. We noted an improvement in the adolescent's attention and social skills, as well as an increase in his ability to mobilize his imagination and to access the elaboration of his thoughts. However, the phenomeno-structural analysis, aside from the increasing number of creative responses, enabled us to detect invasive anxieties, which make us fear that, with him, this existential stage of a rite of passage represents a risk that could lead to psychotic problems. Phenomenology, given that it is a subtle method, only makes sense if practiced in the world of real life, where "being in the same landscape" becomes as much a diagnostic tool as it is a treatment process. The Rorschach Test with its GACAPS analysis grids, as well as the IPSE method (Processus inductif d'analyse de la structure de l'expérience vécue - Inductive Process for the Analysis of the Structure of Lived Experience), are pragmatic tools providing relevant results in a context of a clinic of modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1989 and 2000, many women's sports which had previously been governed separately to men's sport were forced into 'mergers' with male governing bodies. These processes were profoundly disempowering for the women involved, often leaving them with very limited voice and representation in the governance of their sport post-merger. In this article, I detail the experiences of female coaches caught up in these merger processes, based on an analysis of archival documents and oral history interviews across six sports (squash, athletics, football, hockey, lacrosse and cricket). For some women coaches, the mergers proved a positive step on the path to professionalisation: they began to be paid for work which previously was often done for free. However, in other cases, elite coaching roles were removed and reallocated to men at the point of merger. Prior to the mergers, many women's sports were coached entirely or predominantly by women; however, the mergers led to the loss of a generation of women coaches who were either actively pushed out or were asked to 'requalify' for their roles and left coaching altogether. The legacies of the mergers are still evident today in the structural gender discrimination which operates across contemporary British sport coaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on the disproportionate academic and media attacks that management consultancy seems to attract and links this to the failure of developing strong professional institutions on the example of comparable professions such as law and accountancy. In particular, whilst a professional project was initially at play within this sector, it eventually lost support from key stakeholders, in particular the large firms who employed a majority of management consultants. As such professional associations in the management consultancy field engaged in a series of accommodation strategies to win back some corporate support. The result was a weaker form of corporate professionalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]