Anki Bengtsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6300214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anki Bengtsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anki |
| FAMILY NAME | Bengtsson |
| SIGNATURE | BENGTSSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2960-2905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the professional competence of career guidance counsellors
This article aims to explore perceptions of learning outcomes, central professional competence, and the profession among students graduating from the higher education programme in career guidance and counselling in Sweden. The empirical data consists of semi-structured interviews with 22 students graduating in career guidance and counselling. The students consider individual career guidance counselling to constitute the heartland of the professio…
Governing educational choices through guidance
Private actors in education put to the test
Regulating private actors within education systems remains a highly contested issue. In recent years, the Swedish government has introduced proposals to impose restrictions on profit-making and increase control over private actors in education, known as independent schools. Drawing on Boltanski and Thévenot’s framework of ‘orders of worth’, this study investigates how a non-profit and a for-profit private actor in education justify their roles in…
The complexity of professional integration
This article investigates the professional integration of a group of newly arrived teachers, mainly from Syria, who participated in the labour market Fast-track programme in Sweden, which aims at facilitating quicker pathways to teaching positions. Drawing on the institutional perspective, our analysis focuses on formal and informal institutional conditions that hinder or enable newly arrived teachers in their striving for legitimacy as professio…
On epistemic justice in career guidance
This paper presents a framework for understanding epistemic injustice in career development theory and practice. It is based on Fricker’s philosophical conceptualisation of epistemic injustice and its sub-forms of hermeneutical and testimonial injustice. The intention is to generate insights that direct us to injustices embedded in knowledge production and institutional practices that harm a person’s capacity as a knower. Moreover, the intellectu…
Enterprising career education
This article provides an account of how people's career management is given prominence in contemporary European policy documents pertaining to career education for entrepreneurship in higher education and in vocational education and training. This study concerns the ways in which policy discourses of career management and governmental practices invoke individuals to understand themselves as entrepreneurial. Proceeding from post-Foucauldian theori…
European Policy of Career Guidance
‘Everyone has a career to be managed’ is the simple message in new policy strategies for career guidance in Europe. In this article, the promotion of career management for ‘all’ will be unsettled by analysis of career self-management put in relation to rationalities of government and self-government. We are governed to self-manage our career and at the same time govern ourselves to do that. European policy documents on career guidance and career …
Enterprising career education
This article provides an account of how people's career management is given prominence in contemporary European policy documents pertaining to career education for entrepreneurship in higher education and in vocational education and training. This study concerns the ways in which policy discourses of career management and governmental practices invoke individuals to understand themselves as entrepreneurial. Proceeding from post-Foucauldian theori…
European Policy of Career Guidance
‘Everyone has a career to be managed’ is the simple message in new policy strategies for career guidance in Europe. In this article, the promotion of career management for ‘all’ will be unsettled by analysis of career self-management put in relation to rationalities of government and self-government. We are governed to self-manage our career and at the same time govern ourselves to do that. European policy documents on career guidance and career …
Enterprising career education
This article provides an account of how people's career management is given prominence in contemporary European policy documents pertaining to career education for entrepreneurship in higher education and in vocational education and training. This study concerns the ways in which policy discourses of career management and governmental practices invoke individuals to understand themselves as entrepreneurial. Proceeding from post-Foucauldian theori…
The complexity of professional integration
This article investigates the professional integration of a group of newly arrived teachers, mainly from Syria, who participated in the labour market Fast-track programme in Sweden, which aims at facilitating quicker pathways to teaching positions. Drawing on the institutional perspective, our analysis focuses on formal and informal institutional conditions that hinder or enable newly arrived teachers in their striving for legitimacy as professio…
On epistemic justice in career guidance
This paper presents a framework for understanding epistemic injustice in career development theory and practice. It is based on Fricker’s philosophical conceptualisation of epistemic injustice and its sub-forms of hermeneutical and testimonial injustice. The intention is to generate insights that direct us to injustices embedded in knowledge production and institutional practices that harm a person’s capacity as a knower. Moreover, the intellectu…
On the professional competence of career guidance counsellors
This article aims to explore perceptions of learning outcomes, central professional competence, and the profession among students graduating from the higher education programme in career guidance and counselling in Sweden. The empirical data consists of semi-structured interviews with 22 students graduating in career guidance and counselling. The students consider individual career guidance counselling to constitute the heartland of the professio…
Governing educational choices through guidance
Private actors in education put to the test
Regulating private actors within education systems remains a highly contested issue. In recent years, the Swedish government has introduced proposals to impose restrictions on profit-making and increase control over private actors in education, known as independent schools. Drawing on Boltanski and Thévenot’s framework of ‘orders of worth’, this study investigates how a non-profit and a for-profit private actor in education justify their roles in…
Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Career development (2 works) · Career Development and Diversity (2 works) · Economics (2 works)