ABSTRACT
Any instance of human conduct entails an agent and what that agent does, or how that agent acts. The agent may be an individual or a collectivity. Individual membership of a profession is a clear-cut concept when a person has the recognized educational qualification for professional practice, is working as a practitioner of that profession, is a member of the relevant professional association, and has a conscious commitment to the obligations of professional membership. Professional collectivities are variously called professions, associations, institutes, schools, ad hoc or standing committees, working groups, teams, agencies, units, or departments. The agent’s character and temperament cannot reasonably be ignored in a description of an instance of professional conduct. The educational arm of a profession consists of educational professionals, the full-time teachers and researchers in professional schools, those performing professional educational functions in agencies, and in associations, and practitioners who are involved in educational programs.
