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The framework for professional educ in recreation developed primarily from recommendations of national conferences on the subject. The trend is for increasing emphasis on broad general foundations in humanities & soc sci's with opportunities for specialization in various aspects--hosp, industry, municipal, admin--to be centered in the upper division & graduate levels. Problems are: supply of potential leaders, org'al patterns, accreditation, institutional roles, professional standards. Needs are: more evaluation, more res, higher standards. Suggested guidelines are: cooperative effort, flexibility in approach, balanced offerings, & reflection of the needs of the profession & society. AAAPSS.

In a world where being a 'professional' is an increasingly indistinct notion under siege from scholars and educated laypeople, this interdisciplinary volume advocates the metaphor of 'becoming' as an lifelong process of forming one's professional identity.

"'Professions' are work collaborations in which representatives of certain vocations address the life problems of 'laypersons'. In such relationships, adequate communication between representatives of the profession and laypersons is crucial in addressing their individual problems. Accordingly, 'understanding', as well as interactional documentation of this understanding, is of considerable importance. The authors of the present volume, 'Understanding in Professional Spheres of Activity', address the documentation of this understanding in certain professional spheres. They examine the requirements for the documentation of such understanding and the forms of documentation used in the fields of doctor-patient communication, counseling communication, and organizational collaboration on a movie set. Conversation analytic as well as ethnographically complemented studies draw further attention to an examination of the interactional level in its socio-structural context, and to that end the study employs a combination of conversational linguistics and sociological research. This contribution is therefore important not only in terms of linguistics but also sociologically." (author's abstract)

Health professionals move for various reasons and for various periods of time, which entails consequences at various levels, ranging from governmental decisions regarding the policy of health mobility to shifts in mobile medical professionals' attitudes towards sojourning. The present paper looks into the self-perceptions of working and living abroad of mobile medical professionals. An online questionnaire was conducted in order to gain an insight into how mobile medical professionals experience living and working in a foreign environment and which factors make it easier or more difficult. The results suggest a close link exists between the perceived willingness to continue the sojourn and the degree of identification with the new culture, satisfaction with professional functioning and satisfaction with social networks. Even though the majority of the respondents feel well adjusted in their new working environment, they experience their social networks as inadequate, which sometimes provides mobile medical professionals with an impetus to abort their careers abroad.