Det proto-jurisdiktionelle sprog

In this article, we inquire into the role played by language and core, politicized concepts in inter-professional coordination around expert work in transition. Empirically, we analyze how engineers and landscape architects cooperate around and compete for work related to rainwater management and climate adaptation in cities. We draw on qualitative empirical material, including around 30 in-terviews with involved professionals, focusing on the significance ascribed to the concept of "LAR", local drainage of rainwater, in the wider climate adaptation field since the 1990s. Using Andrew Abbott's (1988, 2005) theory of professions, we show how the story of LAR embodies a wider dynamic of 'proto-jurisdictional' emergence, with new professional roles and languages. Ab-bott places control over work tasks center stage in analyzing professional relations; and this includes 'ecological' considerations for how professions relate to political and academic institutions. On this basis, we show how professional actors use the specific LAR concept as a way of claiming compe-tence and forge alliances with others in the climate adaptation field. In reference to Abbott's notion of the 'knowledge systems' of professions, the implication we draw is that we need to understand professional languages in relation to broader jurisdictional struggles and translations between politi-cal and academic discourses.

... hvornår kommer de FANDENS FUSIONER?

Denmark is one of a small number of countries in which institutions offering bachelor level degrees in nursing, teaching and social work have not merged into the traditional university sector, but is organized in so-called University Colleges. During the last 20 years, the education of the welfare professionals have been the reorganized through extensive horizontal mergers in the last 20 years, reducing the number of institutions from 117 to 7. Vertical mergers between UC-s and Universities have not yet been realized but the question is for how long this will be the case. A potential future scenario is that a 5-year teaching degrees and master’s level degrees in welfare management will breach the barrier between the two sectors. Other scenarios that could change the UC sector profoundly include sales of buildings, local sponsorships and/or transnational purchases.

Styring, professionel dømmekraft og faldgruber for fagprofessionel værdiskabelse

In the literature on public management, the dominant perspective of professional practice is a concern for lack of political accountability and a risk of self-interested behavior in the interaction with citizens. For many years, performance management has been seen as a solution to this concern. Within the field of professional practice, the dominant perspective is a concern that performance management hijacks the autonomy of professionals and contributes to the proletarization of the professions. Evidence for both perspectives is mixed and there is a lack of knowledge about how professionals handle these claimed conflicts and whether performance management can be seen as a solution to this. The article discusses a particular relationship between management and practice: the professional judgment and concludes that there are two pitfalls to support the quality of professional practice: external goal management of professional practice and the absence of a reflection culture in professional practice. The article is a contribution to the 10th anniversary of the university colleges and can be read as an analysis of the managerial and professional context students will encounter as graduated professionals.

Professionel ledelse af professionshøjskoler – fortalt og fortolket af to rektorer

”Professional leadership” were some of the keywords when the legislation for University Colleges in Denmark was passed in 2007. In contrast to the previous institutions (seminarium and CVU), the University Colleges should be led by so-called professional leaders. But who were these leaders? Where did they come from? What sense did they make of the University Colleges and themselves as professional leaders? And what has since happened? Based on narratives told by two prominent headmasters in 2007, these questions are discussed in this article. The conclusion is that the generic leader has taken over power from the specialist leader.