Biopolitics and lifelong learning: the vitalistic turn in English further education discourse

被引:11
作者
Beighton, Christian [1 ]
机构
[1] Canterbury Christ Church Univ, Fac Arts Humanities & Educ, Sch Teacher Educ, Canterbury, Kent, England
关键词
lifelong education; further education; discourse; biopolitics; vitalism; CREATIVITY;
D O I
10.1080/02601370.2021.1946863
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
This paper argues that a shift in discourse about the nature and purpose of Further Education is under way in England. A recent White Paper, 'Skills for jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth', issued by the UK government, is couched in terms which suggest that a prior reliance on the ideology of neoliberalism is now moving towards the objectives and instruments of what Michel Foucault termed biopolitics or the exploitation of life itself. I analyse the White Paper and related recent texts to show how a form of vitalist discourse accompanies attempts to accelerate potentially problematic processes of value-extraction. While these developments respond partly to the societal changes resulting from the threats to life of the Coronavirus pandemic and other existential crises, their likely impact suggests a shift in the discourses of lifelong learning: an existing apparatus of normalisation and control is now turning to biopolitical exploitation.
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页数:15
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