Hegemony through Responsibilisation
Getting Working-Class Students into Higher Education in the United Kingdom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928798 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Morrison (0000-0002-3457-6863, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 118-129 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/power.2014.6.2.118 |
| OpenAlex | W2171888167 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article examines the role of the New Labour government's agenda for widening participation in higher education as a form of a responsibilising discourse of working-class young people. Under the New Labour administrations of 1997–2010, a concerted attempt was made to attract working-class students into higher education through promotional initiatives such as the Aimhigher programme. Drawing from Raymond Williams' discussion of hegemony and also from Nikolas Rose's concept of the ‘enterprising self’, this article examines three explanatory/promotional documents from the Aimhigher programme, aimed at working-class young people and their parents. The documents are analysed as materialisations of a powerfully hegemonic discourse of ‘responsibilisation’ towards participation in higher education. The article concludes with a discussion of the ways in which the widening access agenda has shifted since the Conservative-led coalition government came to power in 2010
Class (philosophy · Coalition government · Government (linguistics · Hegemony · Higher education · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · Working class · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Public Administration · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Risk Society
Marxism and literature
The Bologna Process and the Lisbon Research Agenda
Ideology
Critical Discourse Analysis As A Method in Social Scientific Research
Lifelong Learning under New Labour
Widening Participation, Aimhigher and the Coalition Government
The spectre of neoliberalism
Working-class Men's Constructions of Masculinity and Negotiations of (Non)Participation in Higher Education
It's a struggle’
Discourses of widening participation in the prospectus documents and websites of six English higher education institutions
Emotional journeys
Classification' and 'Judgement
Fitting in’ or ‘standing out’
Risk society
Employing discourse
Strangers in Paradise
Does the Fear of Debt Deter Students from Higher Education
Choices of Degree or Degrees of Choice? Class, 'Race' and the Higher Education Choice Process
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |