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The education of professional personnel has emerged as an important and continuing activity in many disciplines. The concept is based on the premise that formal academic preparation of individuals can provide knowledge that is limited to a particular time frame and cannot meet all of the needs the professional may have beyond that point in time. As new information emerges, it must be incorporated within the professional’s capabilities and role function so that he maintains and even transcends his standard of performance. The assumption underlying this notion is that formal, academic education, no matter how excellent, can go just so far in personnel preparation and no further. That the education of the professional must continue beyond his academic preparation is presumed.
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Hochberg, I. (1984). The Continuing Education of the Professional. In: Raphael, L.J., Raphael, C.B., Valdovinos, M.R. (eds) Language and Cognition. Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0381-5_11
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