Understanding new hybrid professions: Bourdieu, illusio and the case of public service interpreters
DOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2014.991277Helen Colley& Frédérique Guéry Published in:
Cambridge Journal of Education Volume 45, Issue 1, 2015 Special Issue: Evoking and Provoking Bourdieu in Educational Research pages 113-131 Abstract Public spending reductions across the advanced capitalist world are creating new professions that have a ‘hybrid’ status and/or role. However, research on professional learning has paid little attention to them. This qualitative study of one such profession, public service interpreting (PSI), addresses that lacuna.