%0 Journal Article %T Reimagining the Place of the Professional, before It Is too Late: Five Dystopias and an Oxymoron? %J Education Sciences | An Open Access Journal from MDPI %D 2019 %R https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci9040272 %X The trustworthiness and expertise of professionals is much in demand even while they are derided as members of slippery, credentialized and self-serving elites. Eliot Friedson¡¯s three ¡®logics¡¯ provide a contextual lens for this deconstruction of ¡®professional¡¯ and are updated by adding Artificial Intelligence (AI) as putative fourth logic to provide a contextual background¡ªso, Markets, Bureaucracy and AI are seen as alternatives to and influences on professionalism. This context suggests that it may already be too late to save ¡®professionals¡¯, but them paper confronts a significant conceptual deficit by using a second interdisciplinary lens, Clarke¡¯s Place Model, to critically deconstruct the ¡®place¡¯ of professionals to reimagine a commodious and accessible conceptualization, consisting of five dystopias and a potentially potent oxymoron¡ª inclusive professional. The Place Model is presented as an example of a Geographical Imagination (Massey), combining two conceptions of ¡®place¡¯: place as esteem and place as a changing position on the expanding horizons of a career-long growth of expertise. This novel conceptualization is then used to examine the dystopias and potential ideals of ¡®professional¡¯. View Full-Tex %U https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/9/4/272