Learning as Investment
Notes on governmentality and biopolitics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8856933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Simons (0000-0003-4694-0586, Catholic University of America, corresponding author), Maarten Simons (a Centre for Educational Policy and Innovation, Catholic University Leuven) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 523-540 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2006.00209.x |
| OpenAlex | W2130026275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 19 |
The ‘European Space of Higher Education’ could be mapped as an infrastructure for entrepreneurship and a place where the distinction between the social and the economic becomes obsolete. Using Foucault's understanding of biopolitics and discussing the analyses of Agamben and Negri/Hardt it is argued that the actual governmental configuration, i.e. the economisation of the social, also has a biopolitical dimension. Focusing on the intersection between a politicisation and economisation of human life allows us to discuss a kind of ‘bio‐economisation’ (cf. Bröckling), a regime of economic terror and learning as investment. Finally it is argued how fostering learning, i.e. fostering life (as a learning process) could turn into ‘let die’ and even into ‘make die’
Biopower · Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Governmentality · Intersection (aeronautics · Investment (military · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Digital Education and Society · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy
Rethinking Philosophy for Children
Di̇si̇pli̇nsel Ve Bi̇yopoli̇ti̇k İkti̇darin Kesi̇şi̇m Noktasindaki̇ Çağdaş Eği̇ti̇me İli̇şki̇n Bi̇r Tartişma
Impotence in Education
The problem with flexible learning
Equitable relief as a relay between juridical and biopower
Testing the talented child
The Biopolitical Kindergarten
Neoliberal Ideologies, Governmentality and the Academy
Biopolitical Utopianism in Educational Theory
Geographies of identity
Neoliberal schooling and subjectivity
Standardising Europe
What's the use of Foucault in research on lifelong learning and post-compulsory education? A review of four academic journals
The child sensorium as privileged biopolitical resource
Narrowing Down Education
The governance of teachers’ time allocation and data usage through a learning management system
Fixing contradictions of education commercialisation
Sustaining the life-chance divide? Education for sustainable development and the global biopolitical regime
Archaeological, Alethurgical, and Dispositif Analysis
Economic rewards are the driving factor’
Instructing the neoliberal student on the conduct of school
Politically motivated precarization of academic and journalistic lives under authoritarian neoliberalism
Against neoliberal pedagogies of plants and people
We must urgently learn to live differently’
Critical Discourse Analysis and Science Education Texts
Valuing knowledge
Uneasy discipline
The Experience of Childhood and the Learning Society
What Does It Mean to Be an Educated Person
Children in Public or ‘Public Children’
The Researcher and the Studier
Ethics review, neoliberal governmentality and the activation of moral subjects’
Educational policy‐making in post‐communist Ukraine as an example of emerging governmentality
What do you want to do your life? Ethics and compulsory education
Discourses of lifelong learning
To be one’s own confessor
Regimes of performance
The Eclipse of Imagination Within Educational ‘Official’ Framework and Why It Should be Returned to Educational Discourse
Rethinking the Learning Society
Neoliberal Governmentality in Social Designing of Education
The 'Subject of Ethics' and Educational Research or Ethics or Politics? Yes Please
Critiquing the Educational Present
The new spirit of capitalism in European Liberal Arts programs
The Promissory Future(s) of Education
Education in the Age of Biocapitalism
What is Philosophy for Children? From an educational experiment to experimental education
European Citizens under Construction
It’s a Profane Life
Alter-Childhoods
The Nation as Object
All that is Solid Melts into Work
The evisceration of 'truth
Michel Foucault, philosopher
Foucault and Political Reason
Human Capital
Biopolitik im Empire
Powers of Life and Death Beyond Governmentality
Michel Foucault
Foucault And Political Reason
Powers of Freedom
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior
An Adequate Education in a Globalised World? A Note on Immunisation Against Being–Together
The Discourse of the Learning Society and the Loss of Childhood
Erziehung und Macht
Omnes et singulatim
| Unique citing works | 52 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,74 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |