Table of Contents

Tensions -- let the doctor give an example; Discretion, quality and control: The medical profession and National Quality Registries; Management by documents -- a risk of de-professionalising?; Talking 'tools for learning': Positioning teachers in discourses on information and communication technology; Municipal adult education: Teacher trajectories and clashes of incentives; Role conflicts among treatment assistants; Aspects of professionalism: Collective nursing -- personalised teaching?; Headteachers caught in the middle or on top of things?; From white dress to white collar: A historical perspective on the hospital ward administrator; Dealing with dilemmas: A fundamental task in police work; Time-formatives and intermittent work: School and teachers' work in practice; Balancing and bridge-building with difficulties ... Clinical nursing teachers; Uncovering tensions in an intersectoral organisation: A mutual exploration among frontline workers; 'Shutting down the Network': System level discretion and teacher discretion in talk about technology; ICT and pre-school: Teachers' professional knowledge base; Police work between legitimacy and efficiency: Handling the expectations on the role of the police; Epilogue: What's new Doc?: Old tensions between or new knowledge about tensions between professions and organisations?; Index.

About the Author

Carola Aili is a senior lecturer in educational science at Kristianstad University, Sweden.

Lars-Erik Nilsson is a lecturer in educational science at Kristianstad University in Sweden.