__Abstract__
In preparing students for their role in their respective
communities, vocational and professional education should provide for
learning experiences that acculturate them to become the new and bona
fide practitioners. In addition to acquiring pre-requisite knowledge and
skills, the graduates need to have adequately integrated their learning and
internalized the values and norms of practice to think, speak and act like
the professionals (Buyx, Maxwell, & Schone-Seifert, 2008; Cooke, Irby,
& O'Brien, 2010; Dall'Alba, 2009; Monrouxe, 2010; Sheppard,
Macatangay, Colby, & Sullivan, 2009; Sullivan, Colby, Wegner, Bond, &
Shulman, 2007).
For the transformation to take place more successfully, students
have to be supported to understand their developing identities: in making
