This article explores how the discourses of the Bologna Process have been accepted and adopted as the dominating ones in European higher education. It consists of a governmentality and discourse analysis inspired by Foucault and based on selected European and Swedish policy documents. The aims of the analysis are to illustrate how governing operates discursively and how it is legitimized, to identify what subjectivities are being shaped and fostered and to de-stabilise the taken-for-granted ideas of the present and so contribute to a space for reflection on how governing and power operate in higher education today.
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In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 25–49 (25 total)
Barbara Grant and Penny Welch
kind described by Nielsen. Interpreting their experiences through Michel Foucault’s ideas of the technologies of domination and of the self, I came to understand ‘the student’ as a site of competing subjectivities. (Interestingly, back in the early 1990
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 106–111 (6 total)
Jeroen Huisman
connected to sociological thinking, for example to the work of founding fathers of sociology like Weber and Durkheim, but also to more recent sociological theory of Bauman, Habermas, Bourdieu and Giddens. Interestingly, references to Foucault are missing
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 107–109 (3 total)
Hans Karl Peterlini and Mary Brydon-Miller
and urgent to all discussions of power, leadership, and belief’ (p. 8). Ranging across the history of philosophical and political thought, in the first part of his book Leitch develops archaeology of authority à la Foucault. This leads him back to
Inside the global teaching machine
MOOCs, academic labour and the future of the university
Michael A. Peters
categories and ways of thinking. On the one hand, they call into question some fundamentals of ‘free market’ economics in ways that can be fruitfully reconsidered in the light of Michel Foucault’s genealogy of neoliberal governmentality. On the other hand
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 66–88 (23 total)
Jacqui Close
reinforces that otherness. Denise made the important observation that difference is carried on the body ( Butler 1993 ; Elias 1982 ; Foucault 1978 ; Wacquant 2004 ). Her age, she suggested, was an important factor in her experience at university, at
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 109–130 (22 total)
Eli Thorkelson, Guy Redden, Christopher Newfield, Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, and Marie-Pierre Moreau
argues that the stress on the national matriculation tests in South Africa prevents educational culture that addresses the diverse needs of students. In the most theoretical chapter in the volume, with reference to Denmark, Kousholt and Hamre use Foucault
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 79–93 (15 total)
Student engagement in the management of accelerated change
Anthropological reflections on ‘Project 2012’ and The Offer
Anselma Gallinat
, no. 3 : 70 – 73 . Hann , C.M. (ed.) ( 1994 ) When History Accelerates: Essays on Rapid Social Change, Complexity, Creativity , London : Athlone Press . Inda , J.X. ( 2005 ) Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality and Life
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 35–56 (22 total)