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This chapter casts ‘deliberate professionalism’ as ‘public-good professionalism’. It brings to thinking about educating the deliberate professional a ‘capabilities approach’ lens, as it has been developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. The authors draw on a study of five professional education departments in three South African universities that collaboratively generated a Public-Good Professional Capabilities Index to discuss pedagogical aims and practice. The paper shows how a capability framework played out in the pedagogical practices in different university departments. It is argued that the capabilities approach can offer a contextualised, rounded and feasible lens on educating the deliberate professional.
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ESRC Project number: RES-167-25-0302.
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McLean, M., Walker, M. (2016). A Capabilities Approach to Educating the Deliberate Professional: Theory and Practice. In: Trede, F., McEwen, C. (eds) Educating the Deliberate Professional. Professional and Practice-based Learning, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32958-1_10
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