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THE UPDATE MODEL. Demand for CPE (factors): Information explosion Changing nature of knowledge Increasing organizational complexity Drive to maintain excellence Public’s demand for accountability Compulsory relicensure Threat of malpractice litigation.
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THE UPDATE MODEL • Demand for CPE (factors): • Information explosion • Changing nature of knowledge • Increasing organizational complexity • Drive to maintain excellence • Public’s demand for accountability • Compulsory relicensure • Threat of malpractice litigation
Rapid development of new technologies • Shifts in governmental regulatory • Mandatory CPE appealed to many professional associations • To hold their members accountable for maintaining their proficiency and performance • CEU defined as 10 contact hours of participation in organized and recognized CPE
New Knowledge/Skills KEEPING UP A Profession’s Knowledge/Skills Base New Technology New Legislation
The dominant model of CPE • Objective to ‘update’ information • Sometime known as Knowledge update or technology transfer • Typical two- or three-day short course • Using didactic instruction • Positivist paradigm:
Positivist model is the dominant epistemology of professional practice • Professionalism means when applying a research-based techniques – firmly grounded in the world of certainty, stability and rigor • The advance of basic knowledge which sometimes removes from practice creates a gap between theory and practice
Therefore informational updates – keeping up is the motif of CPE • The positivist model of knowledge focus on problem solving not problem definition • Problem definition filled with uncertainty, uniqueness, instability, and values conflict – dimensions of reality better addressed by soft knowledge such as artistry, craft, and wisdom
Problem setting: “…the process by which we define the decision to be made, the ends to be achieved and the means which may be chosen.” (Schon, 1983, pp. 21-69) • Keeping professionals up to date is a means, not an end in itself