1. BEING IFFECTIVE IN CPE Elements of effective practice
Ethical dimensions of practice
Concepts of professionals both as learners and participants
Institutional context of practice
Approaches to program development and evaluation

2. The 4 elements are synthesized into a unified picture of effective practice
To offer a comprehensive statement of what constitutes effective practice
By providing criteria to evaluate and improve current efforts in CPE

3. Continuing Educators as Professionals
CPE is a form of professional practice
Functionalist, Conflict, and Critical Viewpoints provide three fundamentally different understandings of professional practice
Critical Viewpoint offers most accurate understanding of professional practice

4. The Critical Viewpoint asserts that practice can’t be understood as the application of standardized principles
CPE educators must make choices about the nature of the problem to be solved as well as how to solve it
Therefore there is a need to be aware of the range of choices to be made

5. Understanding Effective Practice
CPE educators’ practice must be rooted in a coherent account of its ethical, contextual, and epistemological bases
All the bases are interconnected and are implicit in all forms of practice

6. Ethical Basis of Practice
Any attempt to change professionals is based on ideals of what they ought to be, to know, to do, or to feel
What is right and wrong
Practice can be judged as effective only with respect to a particular ethical framework

7. Usually CPE educators unaware that they make ethical choices in their practice
Ethical framework must be founded on certain values based on SOP, Code of Ethics, Religion, etc.
Ethical dimensions must be made explicit

8. Contextual Basis of Practice
Practice is always conducted in a context composed of varying personalities, shifting expectations, conflicting goals, and limited resources
Therefore it would be inappropriate to judge practice against some fixed ideal of good practice

9. Effective practice must be judged by what is best in a given set of circumstances
The primary context is institutional setting
Guidelines can be used to judge practice
Guidelines must be developed out of the actual situation being evaluated
Context is not an adjunct to understanding effective practice; rather, it is woven into the very fabric of practice

10. Epistemological Basis of Practice
CPE educators must be able to describe how they do what they do.
The description provides an understanding of the epistemological basis of practice
What kind of knowledge or knowing characterizes effective practice?
Or What does one need to know to be an effective CPE practitioner?

11. Schon has offered an epistemology of professional artistry
In contrast to the epistemology that views practice as the application of knowledge, CPE educators’ knowing is in their actions.
CPE educators constantly make judgments for which they cannot state a rule or theory therefore they need to construct the situation to make it solvable
The ability to do this, to reflect-in-action is the core of effective practice

12. This epistemology (RIA) describes how CPE educators make decisions in program planning and etc.
Effective practice in CPE means making the best judgment in a specific contest and for a specified ethical framework
Judgments are made as a result of KIA and RIA

13. Improving Practice
To improve practice, the abilities of CPE educators to make their best judgments must be facilitated through a process of learning
Also must be based on a model of CPE educators as learners.

14. 1. CPE educators must reflect on their RIA by describing what they have done
2. Practice can also be improved by participating in formal educational programs
Experientially based methods, such as case studies, simulations, and role plays are useful for building repertoires of practical knowledge
3. CPE educators must see themselves as researchers of their own practice
4. CPE researchers also must do research to improve practice of CPE educators