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This assignment is going to discuss the role that lifelong learning plays within a professional career, whilst exploring the term continued professional development and its fundamentals.
Professional lifelong learning can be seen as improvements to an individual’s own attributes and skills, which are acquired through the active participation of further training or knowledge attainment outside of their own known boundaries. This can take many forms. Knapper (1998, cited in Aslop, A. 2000.P.42) described it as ‘the ability to learn from life and throughout life, taking responsibility for one’s own learning.’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a popular model of lifelong learning, and is defined …show more content…
2000. P.3) as Eraut (1994) believed.
CPD is regarded as the individual’s responsibility and is often made explicit in their professions code of conduct (Aslop, A. 2000. P.3). Failure to implement CPD into an individual’s career plan can result in disciplinary action. CPD has to explicitly be self-initiated and self-directed, with the individual evaluating and monitoring their own performance, setting their own study time and agenda (Aslop, A. 2000. P.4).
The theoretical and underpinning concept of CPD is well understood and observed.
There have been a number of reports carried out on the subject; some have been considered high profile within recent years. One such report entitled ‘An organization with a memory’ which was carried out by the chief medical officer within the National
Health Service (NHS) (as cited in Dawes, G., Bennett, B. & Cunningham. 2004 P.18) claimed that due to failures to learn on behalf of professionals, a number of major adverse events occurred. These range from various settings within NHS hospitalsDaniel Bowey
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