ERIC Number: EJ943714
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 63
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1474-9041
The Projectisation, Marketisation and Therapisation of Education
Brunila, Kristiina
European Educational Research Journal, v10 n3 p421-433 2011
Publicly funded projects with economic aims and discourses have permeated the public sector, including education. In practice this has meant a shift whereby publicly funded education has evolved into a series of business-oriented projects with individually targeted activities. The rapidly increasing amount of project-based work in education is a result of a shift whereby Finland has become a project society. In this article I will disclose the alliance between projectisation, marketisation and therapisation of education in Finland by analysing project-based equality training in education and project-based training and guidance for young adults. Both activities operate in quite different contexts in the field of adult education but are still targeted by similar forms of power that I aim to analyse in this article. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Commercialization, Educational Change, Public Education, Programs, Therapy, Power Structure, Equal Education, Young Adults, Adult Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Finland

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