The Thinking Professional: Transformative Practice

This book concerns any progressive discipline and human profession looking to transform its practice via the cultivation of thinking professionals, which are preferable to unthinking professionals who may be inattentive, unphilosophical, not inclined or not know how to think deeply and profoundly.Thus, they fail to give due consideration to an issue or the consequences before acting.Thinking professionals have a complete and accurate image (mastery) of their professional identity and reality, and they can reflect on, reason through, and justify any decision to act.They would have thinking acumen (i.e., able to make good judgements and shrewd decisions), which requires a rich repertoire of contemporary perspectives and lenses, ideally with a critical bend (exposing and challenging power). Both The Thinking Professional and transformative practice are used as hooks and threads through the entire book and as anchors for each chapter.The 17-chapter collection is organized into (a) what thi