Completing the course will give the students the following learning outcome, sectioned into knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• has extensive knowledge on and critical reflection regarding current discourses and differing pespectives regarding the inter-diciplinary study of professionalism and professional practice based on diaconia, value and practice theory

• has extensive knowledge about churches and value-based organizations as welfare agents in differing welfare models

• is familiar with the interaction and intertwinement between various agents (public/civilsiciety/commercial) in creating health and welfare

Skills

The student

• is able to analyze and critically evaluate different perspectives regarding the development of professions and professionalism in relation to varous welfare models and institutional work

• can analyze various models of welfare and relate to church, faith-based organizations and civilsociety associations as welfare agent regarding differing value-drivers

• can analyze challenges and opportunities in the relationship, such as power and gender, between different agents with in professional practice

• can investigate, discuss and challenge various value and ethical traditions in diaconal, health and social sciences

• can relate research to the multi-cultural and multi-religious dimensions of Norwegian society

General Competence

The student

• can identify and discuss value foundations and ethical issues in the study of professionalism and professional practice, and work with integrity in the field

• can identify needs for innovation based on research in the applicable field, and able to initiate such innovation • can critically participate in and contribute to the debate of main topics related to values, power and user-relations in professional practice

• can conduct academic projects in the applicable field with interdisciplinary perspectives

• can position and reflect own research within the frame of inter-disciplinarity

Course description

Diaconia, Values and Professional Practice

PHD-DVP 901