Becoming the Role Model: Youth Recreation Leaders, Occupational Choice and a Will to Include

Autor/inn/en	Fejes, Andreas; Dahlstedt, Magnus
Titel	Becoming the Role Model: Youth Recreation Leaders, Occupational Choice and a Will to Include
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39 (2018) 6, S.901-912 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2017.1308917
Schlagwörter	Role Models; Recreational Activities; Career Choice; High School Students; Youth; Folk Schools; Foreign Countries; Leaders; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Identifikationsfigur; Freizeitgestaltung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Ausland; Fachleiter; Schweden
Abstract	The aim of this article is to analyse how a discourse on the role model operates in youth recreational work. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concepts of subjectivity, discourse and power-knowledge, the article analyses interviews with youth recreation leader students enrolled at a folk high school, and their talk about occupational choice. The analysis illustrates how a discourse on the role model emerges and operates through the ways students' descriptions of 'being' and 'doing' intersect with their becoming as role models. The analysis raises several important questions. Should youth recreational work only target those young people who are already marginalised? Are there other subject positions than the role model, available to take up in youth recreation work? Are experiences of marginalisation necessary in order for a desirable youth recreation leader to emerge? (As Provided).
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