He defined professional journalism as the original generation of "news and informed comment".
It allows school aides to replace teachers patrolling cafeterias and hallways, and frees teachers from jobs like grade adviser, in exchange for an extra period of loosely defined "professional development".
The 90-minute film, which makes its debut Saturday night, is a workmanlike recounting of their testy relationship, which defined professional basketball during the 1980s, after the decline of Julius Erving and before the ascendancy of Michael Jordan.
The observation of groups of people functioning in a clearly defined professional or social context has been Mr. Wiseman's primary interest ever since his first film, "Titicut Follies," which exposed the workings of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Massachusetts.
The lack of clearly defined professional qualifications, certification bodies, and industry standards has meant barriers to entry into the career/executive coaching profession have been fairly non-existent.
Clearly defined professional qualifications and certification bodies are important to many professions, from accountants and mechanics, to doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, and even process improvement consultants.
This kind of hardscrabble life defined professional golf even when the purses finally began to rise in the '60s and '70s.
Some of these groups are socially based neighborhood communities in the familiar sense, while others are more formally defined professional organizations of practitioners, groups of politicians, or tribes; some are longstanding and others ad hoc.
Financial incentives play a major role in defining professionals' roles and in whether health care providers embrace or resist changes in their mix of skills and responsibilities.
To define professional engagement and establish a list of beliefs and behaviors characteristic of professionally engaged pharmacists.
