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Professional expertise is a relational and constantly shifting entity, generated, justified, shaped and reshaped according to the altering dynamics of social institutions, changing societies, and symbolic economies. But in what ways does professional expertise now undergo transformations? And how should we read the alterations? In this chapter, we explore three ways of reading these dynamics. Our ambition is to provide a better understanding of the dynamics of professional expertise in relation to changing societies and altering symbolic economies.
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Strand, T., Jensen, K. (2012). Researching the Current Dynamics of Professional Expertise. In: Vukasović, M., Maassen, P., Nerland, M., Stensaker, B., Pinheiro, R., Vabø, A. (eds) Effects of Higher Education Reforms. Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series, vol 4. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-016-3_4
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