Foucault's Toolkit: Resources for "Thinking" Work in Times of Continual Change

Autor/inn/en	Rowan, Molly; Shore, Sue
Titel	Foucault's Toolkit: Resources for "Thinking" Work in Times of Continual Change
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 49 (2009) 1, S.57-74 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-1394
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Vocational Education; Access to Education; Educational Change; Archaeology; Genealogy; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Bildungsreform; Archäologie; Ahnenforschung; Genealogie; Australien
Abstract	This paper was prompted by our interest in two issues associated with Australia's vocational education and training system: recurring declarations for universal access to vocational education and training (albeit in different forms across different epochs) as the right of all Australians and the continual processes of change associated with the sector over the last two decades. As we approach a time of yet more change in vocational education and training, we call for a rethinking of these two characteristics of a training system, as "problems of the present", situations which in their present form are "intolerable". Reflecting a notion of "thinking" work as personal, political, historical and practical, the paper offers a glimpse of Foucault (1926-1984) as a person. We explain his use of the term discourse as an overarching frame for understanding "problems of the present". We review two major aspects of his analytic toolkit: archaeology and genealogy. We close with refections on the usefulness of these analytic practices as tactics of engagement for researchers interested in historical approaches to vocational education. (Contains 4 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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