Against Disengagement: Non-Participation as an Object of Governance

Autor/in	Fergusson, Ross
Titel	Against Disengagement: Non-Participation as an Object of Governance
Quelle	In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 18 (2013) 1-2, S.12-28 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1359-6748
DOI	10.1080/13596748.2013.755806
Schlagwörter	Governance; Learner Engagement; Labor Force Nonparticipants; Discourse Analysis; Criticism; Youth; Unemployment; Public Policy; Political Influences; Foreign Countries; Guidelines; Educational Attainment; Dropouts; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Diskursanalyse; Kritik; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Arbeitslosigkeit; Öffentliche Ordnung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Ausland; Richtlinien; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Großbritannien
Abstract	The discourse of disengagement has achieved ascendancy just as young people's employment prospects have declined--in many countries to crisis levels. Conceptualising and interpreting young people's non-participation in dominant modes of education, training and employment has been a preoccupation of academics, policymakers and journalists. This paper offers a critical analysis of the discourse of disengagement. It queries the primacy of participation as the dominant policy response to mass youth unemployment, identifies some paradoxes of this policy priority, and locates them within a political-economic analysis of youth unemployment. It proposes a view of prevailing policy responses as a mode of governance of problematised populations of young "non-participants". By juxtaposing two ostensibly incompatible analytical frameworks, the paper draws attention to some potentially illuminating tensions between materialist and governmentalist analyses of dominant policy responses to "disengagement", and considers how these might be exploited in researching and reconceptualising non-participation. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10