Continuing Education for Professionals: Voluntary or Mandatory?.

Lowenthal, Werner

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ERIC Number: EJ251229

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1981

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Continuing Education for Professionals: Voluntary or Mandatory?

Lowenthal, Werner

Journal of Higher Education, v52 n5 p519-38 Sep-Oct 1981

The arguments for and against mandatory continuing education for professionals and critiques of these arguments are presented. A cybernetic model based on comparison of practice performance to standards of practice, educational remedies for weaknesses, and evaluation for relicensure or recertification is presented. (Author/MLW)

Descriptors: Certification, Competence, Compulsory Education, Higher Education, Mandatory Continuing Education, Models, Professional Associations, Professional Continuing Education, Standards

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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