Open AccessCo-production in Professional Practice: A Sociomaterial Analysis
Author(s) -
Tara Fenwick
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
professions and professionalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 1893-1049
DOI - 10.7577/pp.v2i1.323
Subject(s) - negotiation , situated , argument (complex analysis) , production (economics) , transformative learning , sociology , public relations , political science , pedagogy , social science , economics , computer science , medicine , artificial intelligence , macroeconomics
Co-production, typically defined as services and products that are planned and delivered in full conjunction with clients, has become a popular policy discourse and prescription for professional practice across a wide range of public services. Literature tends to herald the democratic and even transformative potential of co-production, yet there is little empirical evidence of its processes and negotiations at the front lines of everyday practice. This article adopts a socio-material theoretical frame of professional knowing-in-practice to analyse these negotiations, drawing from a case study of community policing. The argument is situated in terms of implications of these co-production practices for professional learning