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Technicist

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Tech´ni`cist
n.1.One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.
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It offers an alternative to a more technicist framework, and holds within it a number of important possibilities for organizations seeking to sustain themselves and to grow.
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In a similar description of the construction of professionalism in policy documents and legislative reform in the United Kingdom, Osgood (2006) contends that this "construction of professionalism leaves little time to engage in meaningful critiques of the status quo and as a consequence of social engineering those working with early years become constrained by demands for technicist practice" (p.
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He sees 'caring' as an antidote to this technicist approach to education, and sees it in terms of the types of caring exhibited by good parents, a point also made by Whitcombe (2002).
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