A central argument in this paper is that a greater emphasis on knowledge and epistemological cultures is needed to understand the challenges of professionalism in modern globalized knowledge societies. A knowledge society ...

Studies of students’ educational outcome tend to be based on rather simple input output models. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that a better understanding of professional knowledge and the longitudinal characteristics ...

One of the key characteristics of professions is that they are knowledge based occupational groups. Professional education and training is therefore an essential element of professionalism. During the last 30-40 ...