From vocational to professional education [electronic resource] : educating for social welfare / edited by Jens-Christian Smeby and Molly Sutphen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Jens-Christian Smeby and Molly Sutphen -- 2. Academic drift in vocational education? / Jens-Christian Smeby -- 3. Tensions between academic and vocational demands / Ola Agevall and Gunnar Olofsson -- 4. Insights into teacher education from cross-field studies of professional preparation / Judith Warren Little -- 5. Coherence : a longitudinal approach / Kare Heggen, Jens-Christian Smeby and Andre Vagan -- 6. Multiple bridges between theory and practice / Per F. Laursen -- 7. Research-based education in undergraduate professional programmes / Svein Kyvik ... [et al.] -- 8. Professionalism and evidence-based practice / Palle Rasmussen -- 9. Using dialogical pedagogies to cope with fragmentation in nursing education / Molly Sutphen and Kristin Heggen -- 10. The practice turn : research-informed clinical teacher education in two countries / Paul F. Conway and Elaine Munthe -- 11. Concluding remarks / Molly Sutphen and Jens-Christian Smeby.