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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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