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Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 1, 39-54 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/074171360105200104

Learning and Professional Practice: A Study of Four Professions

Barbara J. Daley

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, bdaley{at}uwm.edu

The purpose of this research was to investigate how knowledge becomes meaningful in professional practice across four different professions. Eighty semistructured interviews were conducted with social workers, lawyers, adult educators, and nurses who had attended continuing education programs 9 to 24 months previously. Findings indicate that professionals make meaning by moving back and forth between continuing professional education programs and their professional practice. In addition, each profession studied framed their meaning-making process through an understanding of the nature of their professional work. Implications for research and practice in continuing professional education are drawn.


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