ד"ר עדי ספיר
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אודות
Adi Sapir is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Leadership and Policy in Education, at the University of Haifa Faculty of Education
Dr. Sapir’s research interests lie at the intersection of the Sociology of Education, Organization Studies and History. Her work draws on critically oriented theoretical traditions, investigating how power relations shape organizational and social structures. She is also interested in the connections between history and social sciences, specifically education and organization studies
Dr. Sapir’s main field of research is higher education, and her work thus far has focused on the understanding of higher education and its social, cultural, historical and organizational contexts. Another major area of interest concerns organizational knowledge and learning in various organizational settings, drawing on practice-based approaches to the study of learning, identity and working life
Dr. Sapir’s work has been published in leading journals such as Organization studies, Social Studies of Science, Critical Studies in Education, Higher Education, Higher Education Studies, Journal of Education Policy, Oxford Review of Education, Higher Education Research & Development, History of Education and Journal of Management History
תחומי מחקר
Higher education: history, policy and governance
Higher education: widening participation, diversity and inclusion
Organizational learning and knowledge in diverse settings
פרסומים
Sapir, A., & Mizrahi-Shtelman, R. (2025). How love works: exploring the meanings and expressions of love in educators’ work in primary and secondary education. Teachers and Teaching, 1-19.
Mizrahi-Shtelman, R., & Sapir, A. (2025). Navigating boundaries: the evolution of homeroom teachers’ profession through professional boundary work. Journal of Professions and Organization, 12(2), joaf001.
Amor Banias, S., Sapir, A. Shoshana, A. (2025). Between Personal Choice and Systemic Tracking: Life Histories of Vocational School Graduates in Israel during the 1960s and 1970s. Studies in the administration and organization of education. (In Hebrew)
Zisberg, A., Hirsch-Matsioulas, O., Naim, S., Sapir, A., Hochman, Y., Koren, C., & Kolpina, L. (2024). Assessing age inclusivity at the university of Haifa: Leading Israel’s first age-friendly campus. Innovation in Aging, 8(Supplement_1), 487-487.
Sapir, A., & Mizrahi-Shtelman, R. (2024). Becoming a homeroom teacher: spatial and temporal dimensions of identity formation. Research Papers in Education, 1-25.
Sapir, A., & Mizrahi‐Shtelman, R. (2024). ‘We are not babysitters’: Meaningfulness and meaninglessness in homeroom teachers' identity work. European Journal of Education, e12714.
Sapir, A., & Mizrahi-Shtelman, R. (2024). Experts in care: homeroom teachers, care work and the development of practice-based care expertise. Educational Review, 76(6), 1581-1600.
Sapir, A., & Banai, A. (2024). Balancing attendance and disclosure: Identity work of students with invisible disabilities. Disability & Society, 39(8), 2032-2052.
Sapir, A., & Alimi, A. (2023). The elephant is in the room: Diversity regimes, liminality and play in a dialog program for Palestinian-Arab and Jewish students in an Israeli university. Organization, 13505084231189267.
Mäkinen, E. I., & Sapir, A. (2023). Making Sense of Science, University, and Industry: Sensemaking Narratives of Finnish and Israeli Scientists. Minerva, 61(2), 175-198. (Equal contribution).
Sapir. A. (2022). Student Volunteering in Historical Perspective: Debates and tensions in Israeli Higher Education. Oxford Review of Education, 48(6), 710-726.
Sapir. A. (2022). Social Engagement as a Proto-institution: Histories of Institutional Emergence in the Israeli Higher Education Field. Higher Education Quarterly, 76(4), 861-873.
Sapir, A. (2022) What student support practitioners know about non-traditional students: a practice-based approach. Higher Education Research & Development, 41(6), 2064-2078.
Sapir, A. (2022) Negotiating a dual deficit: the work of student support between conservative audacity and tempered radicalism. Studies in Higher Education, 47(7), 1440-1452.
Sapir, A. (2022) Widening participation policy as practice: category work and local policy enactments at student support units. Journal of Education Policy, 37(5), 798-818.
Sapir, A. (2021) Brokering knowledge, monitoring compliance: technology transfer professionals on the boundary between academy and industry. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 43(3), 248-263.
Sapir, A. (2021) The costs of “free listening”: Negotiating the moral economy of the university. Critical Studies in Education, 62(5), 592-607.
Sapir, A. (2020). Mythologizing the Story of a Scientific Invention: Constructing the legitimacy of research commercialization. Organization Studies, 41(6), 799-820.
Sapir, A. (2020) Contested Internal Legitimacy: the emergence of organized academic entrepreneurship. Journal of Management History, 26(1), 1-18.
Sapir, A., & Kameo, N. (2019) Rethinking loose coupling of rules and entrepreneurial practices among university scientists: a Japan–Israel comparison. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 44(1), 49-72. (Equal contribution).
Sapir, A. (2018) Early academic entrepreneurship: The founding of Yeda R&D company at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In: Sapir, A. and Drori, G. (eds.) Israeli Academia in Transition, special issue of Megamot, 53:1, 159-188. (Hebrew)
Sapir, A. (2017) Protecting the purity of pure research: Organizational boundary-work at an institute of basic research. Minerva, A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 55(1), 65-91.
Sapir, A. and Oliver, A. (2017) From academic laboratory to the market: Disclosed and undisclosed narratives of commercialization. Social Studies of Science, 47 (1), 33–52.
Sapir, A. and Oliver, A. (2017) Loose coupling, conflict and resistance: The case of IPR policy conflict in an Israeli university. Higher Education, 73(5), 709-724.
Oliver, A. and Sapir, A. (2017) Shifts in the Organization and Profession of Academic Science: The Impact of IPR and Technology Transfer. Journal of Professions and Organization, 4 (1), 36-54.
Sapir, A., Drori. I. and Ellis, S. (2016) The practice of organizational learning through collaboration between peripheral and core occupational communities in an innovative technology firm. European Management Review, 13(1), 19-36.
Cohen, U. & Sapir, A. (2016) Models of academic governance during a period of nation-building: The Hebrew University in the 1920s-1950s. History of Education, 45 (5), 602-620.
השכלה
PhD, Tel Aviv University, Organizational Behavior, 2014