Continuing Professional Development in the Legal Profession
探讨法律职业中持续专业发展的新视角，通过实践学习研究律师在紧急决策中的学习过程，提出“即兴持续专业发展”概念，建议政策应关注非正式集体互动。
Continuing professional development is often seen as a means of protecting professional autonomy and maintaining privileged status. This article explores recent debates. A missing perspective on how professional learning occurs is explored using practice-based learning. The purposeful practice of professionals is considered with particular attention to instances of `hot' action, situations where professionals are required to make on-the-spot decisions with little time for deliberation. We demonstrate that it is at such moments that, through articulation and in dialogic relations, professionals can arrive at new understandings of their work; this we term `CPD-on-the-run'. Our research findings are from a collaborative study of lawyers and we report some of the significant ways in which these professionals learn and the context. Our findings suggest there is a need to shift policies away from the predominant focus on individuals towards a concern with informal and spontaneous collective interaction in practice.