Discourses on Employability: Constituting the Responsible Citizen

Autor/in	Fejes, Andreas
Titel	Discourses on Employability: Constituting the Responsible Citizen
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 32 (2010) 2, S.89-102 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
Schlagwörter	Labor Market; Lifelong Learning; Discourse Analysis; Nursing Homes; Employment Qualifications; Governance; Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Inservice Education; Health Personnel; Older Adults; Employment Potential; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Diskursanalyse; Sonderheim; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Ausland; Politics of education; Berufsbegleitende Ausbildung; Medizinisches Personal; Älterer Erwachsener; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Schweden
Abstract	In the last couple of decades, there has been a shift from speaking about employment to speaking about employability. The interest in this article is directed at how discourses on employability are mobilised in the wider discursive terrain of governance. How does governance operate, what subject is produced and, more specifically, who is positioned as responsible for the employability of the citizen through such discourses? These questions are addressed by analysing three different kinds of texts: transnational policy documents on lifelong learning and the labour market, a Swedish policy text on in-service training in the health care sector and interviews with employees at six nursing homes for elderly people. A discourse analysis is performed inspired by the concepts of governmentality and the enabling state. The analysis indicates that the individual is constructed as responsible for her/his own employability, and the state and the employer are construed as enablers. However, this is not clear-cut or deterministic as different kinds of texts produce different kinds of positioning. This kind of analysis might help open up a new space for thought and action. (As Provided).
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