Two factors of expertise? Excellence and professionalism of environmental experts

Changing professional demands in sustainable regional development: a curriculum design process to meet transboundary competence

“…As we cited Mieg (2009), the establishment of professional performance criteria is a task of the experts in the very heterogeneous domain of environmental experts. Mieg (2009) concluded that in these domains, other than in 'established' occupational sectors, the experts are the professionals: those who are setting the standards and those who hold jobs. Therefore, the invited experts should be heads, coordinators, process managers, and human resource managers of firms, institutions, and organisations in the field.…”

Development of design expertise by architecture students

“…These suggest that there are conditions under which one is considered an expert in a field. Mieg (2009) identified conditions that may come to play when the concept of expertise is considered. These conditions are described as the factors that should be evident for a person to be regarded as an expert in a field.…”

“…These conditions were subsequently reduced to excellence and professionalism. Mieg's (2009) research was, however, carried out amongst environmental experts in ten fields, including engineering.…”

National Sustainability Outreach Assessment Based on Human and Social Capital: The Case of Environmental Sciences in Switzerland

“…These efforts to develop human capital are in general linked to investments in social capital, for instance, the development of national systems of accreditation and continuing regular evaluation of education [8]. More generally, research on expert performance teaches us that the optimization of human capital in terms of excellent people-in sports as well as in science-today requires high investments in social capital in terms of professionalized supporting institutions, e.g., for high-level training [33]. Therefore, the success of sustainability-oriented science education might be assessed not only with regard to human capital but also with regard to the development of social capital.…”

“…Therefore, many scholars [32] have suggested analyzing professional expertise only in the context of application. As Mieg [33] has shown, we have to distinguish two factors of expertise related to professional work: expertise as excellence and expertise as professionalism. Expertise as excellence becomes most effective in its own domain, working with already established standards.…”