The habitus of nursing - different by degree? : a critical analysis of the discourses surrounding an an all-graduate nursing profession in the United Kingdom / Sally Hayes
This research (undertaken to complete a Doctor of Education programme) problematises the Nursing and Midwifery Council's decision that as of 2013, the only route onto the UK Nursing register is through graduate programmes. It explores the surrounding discourses and primarily questions whether the new standards for nurse education are a form of social (re)engineering. It draws on the conceptual tools of Pierre Bourdieu (field of practice, habitus and capital) and on his three distinct levels of inquiry: the position of the field within other fields, mapping the objective structure of relations between positions occupied by those who occupy 'legitimate' forms of specific authority in the field, and by exploring the habitus (lived experience) of the agents
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