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The chapter presents and discusses the relationship between professionalism and managerialism. In social work, social pedagogy and education, it becomes relevant to develop a discussion on the changes of welfare policies, since the case studies in the project have shown a number of shortcomings which partly is an outcome of the idea of economisation of the social and educational.
The chapter consists of three main sections and a short concluding discussion. The first deals with the changing societal conditions, pointing to the paradigmatic shift from welfare state to competitive state. The following section concentrates on the changing understanding of professionalism, which in turn is further followed up in section three by presenting changes in professional practice (focusing on changed values of the public services, changed professional practices and impacts of competition). The fourth section is a short conclusive discussion.
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Ziegler, H., Jensen, N.R. (2015). New Conditions of Professional Work or the Fall of Professions? On Managerialism and Professionalism. In: Otto, HU., et al. Facing Trajectories from School to Work. Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11436-1_4
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