Katariina Mertanen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4275835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katariina Mertanen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katariina |
| FAMILY NAME | Mertanen |
| SIGNATURE | MERTANEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6917-2095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Promise of edu-business
Edu-business is changing understandings, aims, content and methods of education on both a European and global scale. This is also the case in Finland, where various private educational enterprises are gaining a stronger role in defining what education is and should be. In this article, informed by our previous conceptual work related to changes in education governance and marketisation and privatisation of education, we are analysing interviews o…
The ambiguities of autonomy in youth training programmes
In recent decades, young people have been provided with various support systems, including therapeutic training programmes to enhance their mental health and well-being through empowerment and support of individual autonomy. In this paper, we examine the ideal of autonomy professed by training programmes for young people. We focused on analysing the inherent ambivalence surrounding the nature of this autonomy, and its manifestation in two youth s…
Educating for the future? Mapping the emerging lines of precision education governance
Managing the future has become one of the major focuses of global governance in education. In its current mode, education seems unable to answer the needs and interests of the market and future megatrends, such as globalisation and digitalisation. Calls for precision education to introduce the usage of digital platforms, artificial intelligence in education, and knowledge from the behavioural and life sciences are getting a foothold in widening p…
Fragile utopias and dystopias? Governing the future(s) in the OECD youth education policies
The OECD has become a notable predictor of the future needs of society and education. In youth education, the OECD spearheads global strategies, initiatives and recommendations about the curriculum and goals for education. By evoking the sense of ‘crisis’ in ‘traditional education’ the OECD functions as a central node of precision education governance, in which so-called best practices of precise, flexible and highly individualised and personalis…
Outreach youth work and employability in the ethos of vulnerability
There is general agreement overall about the desirability and importance of youth support systems as being crucial for young people ‘at risk’ to help them cultivate their subjectivities about employability. In this article, we take a closer look at these support systems and especially at outreach youth work in Finland. We focus on the construction of knowledge and subjectivities of young people related to it. We argue that among the good intentio…
What’s the problem (represented to be) in Finnish youth policies and youth support systems
Young people’s unemployment and social exclusion – the so-called ‘youth problem’ – is one of the main focuses in Finnish youth policies. We examine youth policies and youth support systems by applying a framework of policy analysis developed by Carol Bacchi. We ask 1) what kind of problematisations in youth policies and their implementations produce this ‘youth problem’ in Finland, 2) what are the assumptions behind these problematisations, and 3…
Vulnerabilizing Young People
This essay is about the ethos of vulnerability, young people, and policies and practices related to youth support systems in Finland. Our aim is to scrutinize the alliance of the ethos of vulnerability and neoliberal rationality as well as its outcomes in terms of support systems and young people from various backgrounds. In the end, we take our analysis further to see how this alliance is associated with education and how it works by de-politici…
Prison Break. Education of young adults in closed prisons—building a bridge from prison to civil society
Prison education is seen in both criminal and education policies as a way of assimilating inmates ‘back into society’. In spite of the policy emphasis on education, the practices in prison education vary from prison to prison. The stated aim of prison education in EU and in Finnish national level policies is to teach inmates the skills and knowledge that they can use in life after release and thus reduce recidivism. In this paper, we analyse poli…
What’s the problem (represented to be) in Finnish youth policies and youth support systems
Young people’s unemployment and social exclusion – the so-called ‘youth problem’ – is one of the main focuses in Finnish youth policies. We examine youth policies and youth support systems by applying a framework of policy analysis developed by Carol Bacchi. We ask 1) what kind of problematisations in youth policies and their implementations produce this ‘youth problem’ in Finland, 2) what are the assumptions behind these problematisations, and 3…
Vulnerabilizing Young People
This essay is about the ethos of vulnerability, young people, and policies and practices related to youth support systems in Finland. Our aim is to scrutinize the alliance of the ethos of vulnerability and neoliberal rationality as well as its outcomes in terms of support systems and young people from various backgrounds. In the end, we take our analysis further to see how this alliance is associated with education and how it works by de-politici…
Outreach youth work and employability in the ethos of vulnerability
There is general agreement overall about the desirability and importance of youth support systems as being crucial for young people ‘at risk’ to help them cultivate their subjectivities about employability. In this article, we take a closer look at these support systems and especially at outreach youth work in Finland. We focus on the construction of knowledge and subjectivities of young people related to it. We argue that among the good intentio…
Fragile utopias and dystopias? Governing the future(s) in the OECD youth education policies
The OECD has become a notable predictor of the future needs of society and education. In youth education, the OECD spearheads global strategies, initiatives and recommendations about the curriculum and goals for education. By evoking the sense of ‘crisis’ in ‘traditional education’ the OECD functions as a central node of precision education governance, in which so-called best practices of precise, flexible and highly individualised and personalis…
The ambiguities of autonomy in youth training programmes
In recent decades, young people have been provided with various support systems, including therapeutic training programmes to enhance their mental health and well-being through empowerment and support of individual autonomy. In this paper, we examine the ideal of autonomy professed by training programmes for young people. We focused on analysing the inherent ambivalence surrounding the nature of this autonomy, and its manifestation in two youth s…
Prison Break. Education of young adults in closed prisons—building a bridge from prison to civil society
Prison education is seen in both criminal and education policies as a way of assimilating inmates ‘back into society’. In spite of the policy emphasis on education, the practices in prison education vary from prison to prison. The stated aim of prison education in EU and in Finnish national level policies is to teach inmates the skills and knowledge that they can use in life after release and thus reduce recidivism. In this paper, we analyse poli…
Prison Break. Education of young adults in closed prisons—building a bridge from prison to civil society
Prison education is seen in both criminal and education policies as a way of assimilating inmates ‘back into society’. In spite of the policy emphasis on education, the practices in prison education vary from prison to prison. The stated aim of prison education in EU and in Finnish national level policies is to teach inmates the skills and knowledge that they can use in life after release and thus reduce recidivism. In this paper, we analyse poli…
Vulnerabilizing Young People
This essay is about the ethos of vulnerability, young people, and policies and practices related to youth support systems in Finland. Our aim is to scrutinize the alliance of the ethos of vulnerability and neoliberal rationality as well as its outcomes in terms of support systems and young people from various backgrounds. In the end, we take our analysis further to see how this alliance is associated with education and how it works by de-politici…
What’s the problem (represented to be) in Finnish youth policies and youth support systems
Young people’s unemployment and social exclusion – the so-called ‘youth problem’ – is one of the main focuses in Finnish youth policies. We examine youth policies and youth support systems by applying a framework of policy analysis developed by Carol Bacchi. We ask 1) what kind of problematisations in youth policies and their implementations produce this ‘youth problem’ in Finland, 2) what are the assumptions behind these problematisations, and 3…
Outreach youth work and employability in the ethos of vulnerability
There is general agreement overall about the desirability and importance of youth support systems as being crucial for young people ‘at risk’ to help them cultivate their subjectivities about employability. In this article, we take a closer look at these support systems and especially at outreach youth work in Finland. We focus on the construction of knowledge and subjectivities of young people related to it. We argue that among the good intentio…
Educating for the future? Mapping the emerging lines of precision education governance
Managing the future has become one of the major focuses of global governance in education. In its current mode, education seems unable to answer the needs and interests of the market and future megatrends, such as globalisation and digitalisation. Calls for precision education to introduce the usage of digital platforms, artificial intelligence in education, and knowledge from the behavioural and life sciences are getting a foothold in widening p…
Fragile utopias and dystopias? Governing the future(s) in the OECD youth education policies
The OECD has become a notable predictor of the future needs of society and education. In youth education, the OECD spearheads global strategies, initiatives and recommendations about the curriculum and goals for education. By evoking the sense of ‘crisis’ in ‘traditional education’ the OECD functions as a central node of precision education governance, in which so-called best practices of precise, flexible and highly individualised and personalis…
The Promise of edu-business
Edu-business is changing understandings, aims, content and methods of education on both a European and global scale. This is also the case in Finland, where various private educational enterprises are gaining a stronger role in defining what education is and should be. In this article, informed by our previous conceptual work related to changes in education governance and marketisation and privatisation of education, we are analysing interviews o…
The ambiguities of autonomy in youth training programmes
In recent decades, young people have been provided with various support systems, including therapeutic training programmes to enhance their mental health and well-being through empowerment and support of individual autonomy. In this paper, we examine the ideal of autonomy professed by training programmes for young people. We focused on analysing the inherent ambivalence surrounding the nature of this autonomy, and its manifestation in two youth s…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (7 works) · Economics (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)