“…Professionalism is a socially constructed concept (Osgood, 2006) and, partly for this reason, the term 'profession' and other derivatives have become problematized (Oberhuemer, 1999). Two of the contributory factors to the problematization are that, as previously stated, there is no universal definition of what is meant by 'professional' or 'professionalism' (Cameron, 2006). The literature describes a cluster of related concepts, which is well illustrated in Brock's (2006) seven dimensions of professionalism in ECE: knowledge, education and training, skills, autonomy, values, ethics, and reward.…”