Sanna Toiviainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 87565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanna Toiviainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Toiviainen |
| SIGNATURE | TOIVIAINEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South-Eastern Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6321-2949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Career guidance practitioners’ understandings of social justice in four European Countries
This study explores career guidance practitioners’ understandings of social justice in Poland, Portugal, Denmark and Finland using Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory. Interviews and focus groups revealed traces of various theoretical discourses on social justice, including redistributive, recognition-based, justice as fairness, libertarian and utilitarian perspectives in all four countries. Findings show diverse understandings of social justice…
Participatory Support for Neet Young People
Co-agency
This article contributes a social justice perspective to the ongoing discussions about the concepts that inform career guidance theory and practice. Due to the field's psychological tradition, career guidance practices often adopt highly individualised notions of agency that fail to grasp the contextual factors and societal structures from which agency emerges. In this article an alternative approach to agency is offered by repositioning agency a…
The Positivity Imperative in Youth Education as a Form of Cruel Optimism
In this paper, we revisit the persistent positivity imperative in Finnish youth education by analysing findings from an on-going research project related to various educational interventions targeted at young people ‘at risk’. The article is focused on youth education as an emblematic manifestation of therapeutic ethos and neoliberalism. These manifestations are part of the emergence of the Nordic therapeutic welfare state where neoliberalisation…
The Positivity Imperative in Youth Education as a Form of Cruel Optimism
In this paper, we revisit the persistent positivity imperative in Finnish youth education by analysing findings from an on-going research project related to various educational interventions targeted at young people ‘at risk’. The article is focused on youth education as an emblematic manifestation of therapeutic ethos and neoliberalism. These manifestations are part of the emergence of the Nordic therapeutic welfare state where neoliberalisation…
Co-agency
This article contributes a social justice perspective to the ongoing discussions about the concepts that inform career guidance theory and practice. Due to the field's psychological tradition, career guidance practices often adopt highly individualised notions of agency that fail to grasp the contextual factors and societal structures from which agency emerges. In this article an alternative approach to agency is offered by repositioning agency a…
Participatory Support for Neet Young People
Career guidance practitioners’ understandings of social justice in four European Countries
This study explores career guidance practitioners’ understandings of social justice in Poland, Portugal, Denmark and Finland using Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory. Interviews and focus groups revealed traces of various theoretical discourses on social justice, including redistributive, recognition-based, justice as fairness, libertarian and utilitarian perspectives in all four countries. Findings show diverse understandings of social justice…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (3 works) · Career Development and Diversity (2 works) · Higher Education and Employability (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Alliance (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Citizen journalism (1 works) · Citizenship (1 works)