Biography as Education Governance

Autor/in	Lindgren, Joakim
Titel	Biography as Education Governance
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 28 (2007) 4, S.467-483 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Students; Biographies; Governance; Educational History; School Restructuring; Social Integration; Social Control; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Student; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Soziale Integration; Soziale Kontrolle; Schweden
Abstract	This paper examines the increasing interest of Swedish schools to construct, analyze, assess and control the individual progression and social integration of students using biographical registers. I argue that this tendency--involving biography as a form of governance--can be seen as a revision of early 20th-century biographical research by the Chicago School of Sociology. In this paper I consider the theoretical, methodological and political background of the Chicago work in order to compare it to the Swedish use of "student biographies". Their current use involves a twofold subjectification of students--as "objects" of assessment and as "relays" for assessment. Finally, this subjectivity is understood in relation to international initiatives in education restructuring where new ways of governing--often labeled as progressive--impose social control, heighten individual responsibility and, not least, create new forms of social exclusion. (Contains 9 notes.) (As Provided).
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