ERIC Number: EJ1033618
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 37
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1056-4934
Examining "The Police": On Inclusion and "Investmentality" in Swedish Schooling
Harling, Martin
European Education, v45 n3 p51-66 Fall 2013
In modern education, inequalities are assumed to be reduced by a redistribution of knowledge between the affluent and able on one side, and the poor and unable on the other. This article investigates ways in which the distribution of futures becomes naturalized in everyday school practices where equality is perceived as a goal rather than a starting point. The investigation draws on notions of governmentality and partition of the sensible, to analyze ethnographic material. The findings are thematized as discourses of inclusion and as "investmentality"--attitudes assumed and explained to the subjects involved.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Equal Education, Futures (of Society), Ethnography, Educational Change, Educational Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Government School Relationship, Discourse Analysis, Academic Failure, At Risk Persons, Disadvantaged, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Sweden

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