In numerous countries, pessimism about enduring social and educational inequalities has produced a discernible therapeutic turn in education policy practice, parallel rise understandings of justice. Focusing on developments England Finland, this article explores the ways which radical/critical conceptualisations justice privilege attention to psycho-emotional vulnerabilities. Extending older forms psychologisation, many contemporary accounts resonate powerfully with wider therapisation...

Publicly funded projects with economic aims and discourses have permeated the public sector, including education. In practice this has meant a shift whereby publicly education evolved into series of business-oriented individually targeted activities. The rapidly increasing amount project-based work in is result Finland become project society. article I will disclose alliance between projectisation, marketisation therapisation by analysing equality training guidance for young adults. Both...

We examine the ideal twenty-first century learner as discursively produced in recent future-oriented documents published by OECD and UNESCO. Drawing inspiration from Bacchi's question 'What is problem represented to be?', we identify a constellation of interrelated discourses that together craft an image post-political, resilient, empathic, bio-perfected, transhuman learner. This conditioned endure, adapt adjust ongoing socio-political conditions crises, rather than contest, resist, or alter...

This article considers the rise of therapeutic education in Finland, a phenomenon already acknowledged Europe, Canada and United States. In ethos has been assimilated into educational policies practices, but shift to therapisation especially its consequences have attracted little interest critical research. is based on Foucauldian discourse-analytic methodology previous empirical study. It emphasises effects interventions focuses project-based practices that deal with young adults who are...

In the neoliberal order, ideal self is self-responsible, enterprising, flexible and self-centred. Regarding this we argue that rise of therapisation in society, education, particularly, links both therapeutic enterprising discourses. The article examines how these discourses jointly produce legitimate ideal, thus, preoccupied subjectivity order. As a discursive form power observed here to work by directing students focus on their inner selves – including problems, vulnerabilities,...

In this article, identity politics is understood as a form of stressing collective but malleable group identities the basis political action. This notion also allows thinking intersectional. The focus and problem related to politics, that when discussed in context neoliberal order, has tendency become harnessed by ethos vulnerability. Some implications 'vulnerabilizisation' are considered field education, which currently thoroughly affected neoliberalism. Therefore, it important look closer...

Managing the future has become one of major focuses global governance in education. In its current mode, education seems unable to answer needs and interests market megatrends, such as globalisation digitalisation. Calls for precision introduce usage digital platforms, artificial intelligence education, knowledge from behavioural life sciences are getting a foothold widening powerful networks strengthening EdTech business. By bringing together some emerging changes governance, this article...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) may determine adapting to online environments. This study is an evaluation of students' (N = 33 912) SRL and integration in remote Finnish lower secondary schools when educational institutions all over the world were urgently closed teaching was arranged settings due COVID-19. Neither teachers nor students had time prepare themselves for transition, resulting variations coping. To learn from experiences during pandemic, we evaluated by using a nationally...

This article introduces new insights into the cultural discourse surrounding young men’s mental health in modern-day Finland. Utilizing survey data ( n = 975) and online discussions about health, we delve affective–discursive alignments with ideas related to gender equality context of health. We contextualize these within framework therapeutic culture Our examination highlights how men are seen often disassociate from public discourses, viewing them as overly simplified, intrinsically...

The article focuses on how neoliberalism and therapisation are shaping perceptions of the problems faced by young people, particularly those considered ‘at risk’, people as a consequence identified. It argues that alliance offers position ‘survivalist’, especially deemed to be at risk. How this survival discourse, derived from government policy educational programmes, shapes way expected present themselves in order heard will considered.

Finland has repeatedly been presented as a "success story" of equality and education, promoter human rights included part national curricula. However, research shown the slow progress integrating topics in teacher education despite hundreds project-based interventions during past 50 years. We used historically informed discursive reading drawing from existent literature, policy documents, data student teachers (n = 311) about their perceptions. The theoretical framework this article is...

Education in Finland is facing new challenges the form of two related trends: 'therapisation' and 'projectisation'. The concept therapisation describes ways which ideas, discourses practices from counselling, therapy, psychiatry, educational clinical psychology become internalised normalised education. Projectisation represents a disciplinary productive power to project-based activities that have permeated education Finland. alliance between projectisation specifies parameters what can be...

Students in Finland are obliged to apply for upper secondary education during their 9th year. The main divisions occur between general (academically oriented) and vocational education, within female male dominated sectors. In this article we discuss the tension these options explore young people's hopes, choices, transitions. These related expectations imbedded policies practices. We present a contextualized cross-cultural analysis which interviews ethnographic data from different settings...

This article focuses on the aim of creating a flexible and self-centred self by means entrepreneurial therapeutic education. It is an analysis that uses documents from project-based educational programmes as well interviews with young adults people who work them in these programmes. The data are examined using Foucauldian feminist discursive power subjectivity. author argues forms education related to lead particular kind ideal which she refers diminished.

This article scrutinises the normalised realities behind integration policies and training for refugees immigrants that are claimed to be inclusive. The 'great narrative' of Finland has been focused on equal opportunity via education training, which makes it even more important examine hidden how such affect process. We focus labour market-oriented since employment is considered most element successful social inclusion. Our data consists interviews with 20 refugees, 5 immigrants, 6...

This article focuses on neoliberal governing by the European Union of cross-sectoral youth policies directed at young people ‘at risk’. The aim is to show how alliance discourses employability and precariousness in these has emerged operate policy. In article, we analyse Council Commission policy documents from 2000 2016 drawing idea with political rationality. Our results that financial crisis initiatives launched mitigate its consequences made it possible mainstream rationality individual...

Education governance is shifting towards more individually and personally tailored governance, to pre-empt futures manage the present. Managing present requires fabrication of a specific type future-oriented learning human kinds. Economically driven imperatives, strengthening transnational stakeholder networks advances in life behavioural sciences are important parts this shift while transforming aims, content methods education. In terms neoliberal ethos, structural problems tend be...

AbstractThis article focuses on the idea of entrepreneurial subjectivity and ways in which it is shaped by discourse adult education. As a result, we argue that educational practices related to adults form particular kind ideal refer as entrepreneurial. In order understand how this education works, will analyse young have interviewed engage what effects has for construction their subjectivities. Our joint empirical analysis based discourse-analytic methodology our previous studies. research...

Today, education is massively affected by marketisation and the drastic demands of global economy. Integration training for immigrants has fallen prey to that; are employed serve market needs, which been attributed creation “integration as business”. In article, authors examine how integration becomes organised within current market-oriented policies practices; kinds discourses represented utilised through one an “integrated immigrant” and; what consequences this orientation on subjects...

This article deals with challenging the gender inequalities that exist in education and working life. It contemplates kinds of discursive power relations have led to equality work Finland. In today’s conditions where issues are being harnessed more strongly serve aims economic efficiency productivity, it is even important understand how people who actively seek change succeeded negotiating issues. The also explores current situation by conducting an analysis makes clear not only shape work,...

Disturbing, problematic, or challenging student behaviour is said to be among the greatest challenges facing today's school life. However, despite apparent commonsensical nature of issue, there no commonly agreed upon definition for such events, and often very thin analysis what actually becomes disturbed, challenged, problematised in instances. In this article, disturbing seen as a discursive practice that produces reality; it historically socioculturally formed coming-together various...

This essay is about the ethos of vulnerability, young people, and policies practices related to youth support systems in Finland. Our aim scrutinize alliance vulnerability neoliberal rationality as well its outcomes terms people from various backgrounds. In end, we take our analysis further see how this associated with education it works by de-politicising, narrowing, individualizing toward a new kind highly tailored precision governance.

This article explores a new kind of political ethos in education: the alliance projectisation and precarisation their individual-based implementation. It is critique project based activities working with ‘at risk’ groups Finland, specifically preparation immigrants those criminal backgrounds, for life precarity. The projects discussed refer to publicly funded, short-term educational programmes that operate outside or on edge formal education system. authors' argument while have become an...