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Higher Education Professionals in the Age of NPM and Digital Knowledge: Distinction Strategies for Forming New Occupational Capital
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Wasserman, Varda; Berkovich, Izhak – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The present study examines how changes in higher education systems -- caused mostly by neoliberal ideologies and the knowledge revolution -- affect non-faculty professionals such as academic librarians, and how they cope with these changes. Specifically, relying on Bourdieu's theory of distinction, we show how Israeli academic librarians adopt…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Individual Power, Social Capital
Exploring Narratives of Non-Faculty Professionals in Neoliberal Higher Education: A Cultural Appropriation Perspective on Librarians
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Berkovich, Izhak; Wasserman, Varda – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The purpose of this study is to explore how the rise of the new public management (NPM) culture in higher education affected librarians. Librarians are a central part of the traditional intellectual model of academia, whose professional ethos is challenged and threatened by the new market-oriented culture. Using a qualitative methodology based on…
Descriptors: Librarians, Academic Libraries, Public Administration, Organizational Culture