Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Joy Higgs and Franziska Trede -- Professional practice discourse / Joy Higgs -- Co-writing discourse through practice and theory / Narelle Patton and Maree Donna Simpson -- Marginalia and core discourse / Joy Higgs -- Working in complex practice spaces / Nita Cherry and Joy Higgs -- A praxis perspective / Narelle Patton -- Practice, discourse and epistemic cultures / Joy Higgs -- Appreciating practice / Narelle Patton and Della Fish -- Practice wisdom and wise practice / Joy Higgs -- The discourse on ethics and expertise in professional practice / Gail Jensen and Clare Delany -- Disturbing professional practice discourse / Sheridan Linnell and Debbie Horsfall -- Refocusing academia in the 21st century / Janice Orrell and Gavin Sanderson -- Deliberate marginalia / Franziska Trede and Celina McEwen -- Entering health practice discourse / Diane Tasker and Maree Donna Simpson -- Working through the margins / Tony Patton -- Learning and shaping professional discourse / Joy Higgs , Andrew Vann , Roy Tasker and Ross Chambers -- Challenging practice discourse dichotomies / Sandra Grace and Lesley Cooper -- Changing practice discourse from inside practice / Sheridan Linnell and Janice Ollerton -- Through mindfulness and grace towards embodied practice / Diane Tasker and Angie Titchen -- Digital marginalia / Wajeehah Aayeshah and Tony Patton -- Writing in marginalised voices / Debbie Horsfall and Lynne Adamson -- Changing practices through practice dialogues / Suzanne Alder and Sandra Grace -- Hearing the marginalised voices / Pauline Taylor and Katelin Sutton -- Organising, managing and changing practice / Nita Cherry -- Acting within and against hegemonic practices and discourses / Janice Orrell and Suzanne Alder -- Practice communities and leaders / Pauline Taylor and Narelle Patton -- Professional education and Indigenous Australian issues / Marcelle Townsend-Cross and Rick Flowers -- Harmonising discourse through workplace learning / Narelle Patton and Maree Donna Simpson -- From Discourse to Visioning / Franziska Trede and Debbie Horsfall -- Our journey / Joy Higgs and Wajeehah Aayeshah -- Contributors / Joy Higgs and Franziska Trede.

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This is a book for practitioners, university educators, workplace learning educators, researchers and the professions. It draws together two key elements of the lives of these people: professional practice—what people do, and practice discourse—what they write and say about what they do. And, it focuses these discussions around two spaces—the core and the margins, of practice and discourse. Writing in the margins of texts has a very long history. People have always left part of themselves—their ideas, personality and reflections—in the margins of texts. In this book we have taken up the idea of such written marginalia and we have expanded it into writing into the texts of practice discourse as well as speaking and acting in the margins of professional practice. Such deliberate practice changes in marginal practice spaces and in written practice discourse provides ways of shaping and critically appraising current and future professional practice. This book provides a dialogue between two fascinating phenomena: professional practice and discourse. In the 21st century these two are facing challenges as they negotiate their contested spaces in a rapidly changing global society. They draw on strong established traditions and expectations but they cannot be complacent in these illusory stabilities. Rather they must be awake to the imperatives of their own re-invention and re-claimed relevance to today’s society and today’s professional class in the workforce. Across the chapters we explore the core spaces of professional practice discourse from the vantage point of the margins of this space, and the margin spaces as they interact with the core. Marginalia serves as an architect of destabilisation, challenge, revolution, reflection or sometimes affirmation of the central discourse space. There are five sections in the book: Section One: Professional practice discourse, Section Two: Leading the practice discourse, Section Three: Writing from inside practice, Section Four: Writing onto and into practice and Section Five: Marking trails and stimulating insights. Readers are invited to contribute to our exploration of the phenomenon and practice of professional practice discourse marginalia.