Review and Reflections of Chapters

TY - CHAP

T1 - Review and Reflections of Chapters

AU - McKee, Anne

AU - Eraut, Michael

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - The link between identity and the lifespan learning of practitioners, professional groups and organisations has provided a lens with which to understand the mutual interactions between the contexts and conditions within which learning takes place, what is being learned and how it is being learned. The external contexts examined include policy, technological innovation, economic factors and a range of national and global trends. Each of these contexts helps shape what the nineteenth-century English essayist William Hazlitt and twentieth-century historian Asa Briggs have called ‘The Spirit of the Age’. This essentially historical concept offers a way of thinking about the ‘time’ or period in which we live, what characterises that time and the kind of changes it fosters. Identity and shifts in identity help us understand ‘The Spirit of the Age’ from a learning perspective. The formation and transformation of identity over the professional lifespan help us explore the relationship between a complex set of changes and their implications for professional practice and professional learning.

AB - The link between identity and the lifespan learning of practitioners, professional groups and organisations has provided a lens with which to understand the mutual interactions between the contexts and conditions within which learning takes place, what is being learned and how it is being learned. The external contexts examined include policy, technological innovation, economic factors and a range of national and global trends. Each of these contexts helps shape what the nineteenth-century English essayist William Hazlitt and twentieth-century historian Asa Briggs have called ‘The Spirit of the Age’. This essentially historical concept offers a way of thinking about the ‘time’ or period in which we live, what characterises that time and the kind of changes it fosters. Identity and shifts in identity help us understand ‘The Spirit of the Age’ from a learning perspective. The formation and transformation of identity over the professional lifespan help us explore the relationship between a complex set of changes and their implications for professional practice and professional learning.

U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-1724-4_13

DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-1724-4_13

M3 - Other chapter contribution

SN - 978-94-007-1723-7

VL - 7

T3 - Innovation and Change in Professional Education

SP - 259

EP - 275

BT - Learning Trajectories, Innovation and Identity for Professional Development

A2 - McKee, Anne

A2 - Eraut, Michael

PB - Springer Netherlands

ER -