Valuing studies in higher education: Symbolic means and strategies of students negotiating their position in the library and information science field
| Autor: | Valentini Moniarou-Papaconstantinou |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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symbolic resources
Library and information science Library and information science education Industry profession and education Higher education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Field (Bourdieu) Χρήστες πληροφοριακή παιδεία και ανάγνωση Library science Library and Information Sciences Βιομηχανία επάγγελμα και εκπαίδευση Negotiation LIS discipline Students trajectories LIS students’ perceptions Position (finance) Sociology College students Users literacy and reading business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) Journal of Librarianship and Information Science; London Vol. 52, Iss. 1, (Mar 2020): 306-314. SAGE Journals Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Vol. 0, No. 0: 0961000618799530. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0961000618799530?ai=46wof&ui=3gwh7&af=T |
| Popis: | Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο The library and information science field attempts to legitimize its position in higher education, in a ‘culture of uncertainty’, where boundaries are fluid. The position of LIS in the hierarchical classification of academic subjects is influenced by the changes in both the field of higher education and in the information environment, creating expectations for the emergence of new fields of study, research and professional practices. The purpose of this paper is to examine how LIS students position themselves in their field of study and the resources they use in processes of meaning-making. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with students from the three LIS departments operating in Greece at the undergraduate level. The results showed that the academic knowledge content of the object, the assignment of scientific characteristics to it, the signifier of the book, the form of professional practice and, above all, technology are the most prominent resources among those that most young people utilized in their effort to negotiate the symbolic class (i.e. the dominant cultural categories which give meaning to the social world). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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