Hooked on a feeling
Education, guidance and rehabilitation of youth at risk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Brunila (0000-0003-2548-2897, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-228 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-8487 • E-ISSN: 1750-8495 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17508487.2012.716369 |
| OpenAlex | W2006574996 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 23 |
Education in Finland is facing new challenges in the form of two related trends: ‘therapisation’ and ‘projectisation’. The concept of therapisation describes the ways in which ideas, discourses and practices from counselling, therapy, psychiatry, educational and clinical psychology become internalised and normalised in education. Projectisation represents a disciplinary and productive form of power related to project-based activities that have permeated education in Finland. The alliance between projectisation and therapisation specifies the parameters of what can be said and done in project-based education. This article analyses the shift in Finnish education towards individually targeted, project-based and therapeutic activities, such as those for mental health and emotional well-being, as well as activities for emotional and psychological support and raising self-esteem. These short-term educational activities targeting youth at risk of social exclusion represent a form of regulative and productive power that intertwines with young adults’ education, guidance and rehabilitation. The article is informed by a Foucauldian discourse-analytic methodology and on an empirical study. Through analysis of interviews and ethnographic research with young people and project workers involved in education, guidance and rehabilitation activities, I draw critical attention to the alliance between therapisation and projectisation in education and some of its educational and social implications
Alliance · Discipline · Feeling · Medical education · Mental health · Pedagogy · Political science · Power (physics · Psychotherapist · Social science · Sociology · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Rehabilitation
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Shaping the Selves of “At Risk” Youth in Debt and Poverty in the Context of Economic Vulnerability
The Positivity Imperative in Youth Education as a Form of Cruel Optimism
Governing students for work and for life - guidance for students with special educational needs in Finnish VET
Wendy, Peter and the Lost Boys—The Gendered Discourses of Welfare Service Practitioners and Their Young Clients
Getting on the right track? Educational choice-making of students with special educational needs in pre-vocational education and training
What’s the problem (represented to be) in Finnish youth policies and youth support systems
The youth mental health crisis and the subjectification of wellbeing in Singapore schools
Interventions for resilience in educational settings
From emotional and psychological well-being to character education
Nomadic Work
Prison Break. Education of young adults in closed prisons—building a bridge from prison to civil society
The Rise of the Survival Discourse in an Era of Therapisation and Neoliberalism
Outreach youth work and employability in the ethos of vulnerability
Education and Training as Projectised and Precarious Politics
Conceptualising the compulsory education policy apparatus
What do you want to do your life? Ethics and compulsory education
Bad behaviour in school
Post-Fordist reconfigurations of gender, work and life
Confronting well-being and mental health in the 'therapeutic university
Identifying Hyperactive Children
Education plc
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
The Culture of Control
Inventing our Selves
Risk‐taking abilities for everyone? Finnish entrepreneurship education and the enterprising selves imagined by pupils
Becoming Schoolgirls
Becoming Schoolgirls
Resisting images of the ‘diminished self’
From emotional and psychological well-being to character education
Knowing me, knowing you
Inventing Ourselves
Cartography of Gender Equality Projects in Ict
Governance or the crisis of governmentality? applying critical state theory at the European level
The Projectisation, Marketisation and Therapisation of Education
Governing the Soul - a Quarter of a Century On
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |