ABSTRACT

Ideas and expectations about professions and about the process of becoming a professional are changing. Once defined largely by licenses or certificates, many fields of work are looking for more decentralized ways to determine what is a profession, and who is a professional. Many are turning to more decentralized ideas about professions and self-directed processes for lifelong professional learning. An increasing number of fields are using competency frameworks as one mechanism to guide professionalization without standardizing the preparation of those who work in the field. Research is needed to assess the viability and the impact of these frameworks on the individuals, institutions, the field, and ultimately on the public audiences they serve. The field of Informal STEM Learning (ISL) is uniquely poised to benefit from and contribute to the conversations and practices that are moving professional learning towards more self-directed paths.

摘要

关于专业和成为专业人士的过程的想法和期望正在发生变化。一旦主要由许可证或证书定义，许多工作领域正在寻找更加分散的方法来确定什么是专业，谁是专业人士。许多人正在转向关于职业和终身专业学习的自我导向过程的更加分散的想法。越来越多的领域正在使用能力框架作为一种机制来指导专业化，而不是标准化在该领域工作的人员的准备工作。需要研究来评估这些框架对个人、机构、领域以及最终对他们所服务的公众受众的可行性和影响。