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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education
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Paula Groves Price, Editor – Oxford University Press, 2024
"The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education" is designed to provide scholars, students, and educational practitioners access to research, theories, and historical and contemporary reviews of the many complex and nuanced ways race is enacted in education in different nations. Understanding race in education requires multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Race, Social Influences, Power Structure
Is There a Nordic Freire? The Reception History of Freirian Ideas in Finland
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Suoranta, Juha; Tomperi, Tuukka – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2021
World-renowned educational theorist Paulo Freire has a decades-long legacy reaching all corners of the world. In this reception study, we ask, is there a Nordic Freire, that is, have the Nordic educators and scholars recognized Paulo Freire's works in the past decades? Our reception study's purpose is not to go into depth to Freire's thinking but…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Educational Theories
Prison Break. Education of Young Adults in Closed Prisons--Building a Bridge from Prison to Civil Society?
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Mertanen, Katariina; Brunila, Kristiina – Education Inquiry, 2018
Prison education is seen in both criminal and education policies as a way of assimilating inmates 'back into society'. In spite of the policy emphasis on education, the practices in prison education vary from prison to prison. The stated aim of prison education in EU and in Finnish national level policies is to teach inmates the skills and…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Foreign Countries
Preoccupied with the Self: Towards Self-Responsible, Enterprising, Flexible and Self-Centred Subjectivity in Education
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Brunila, Kristiina; Siivonen, Päivi – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
In the neoliberal order, the ideal self is self-responsible, enterprising, flexible and self-centred. Regarding this ideal we argue that the rise of therapisation in society, and in education, particularly, links both the therapeutic and enterprising discourses. The article examines how these discourses jointly produce and legitimate the ideal,…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Power Structure, Student Responsibility, Self Management
Hooked on a Feeling: Education, Guidance and Rehabilitation of Youth at Risk
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Brunila, Kristiina – Critical Studies in Education, 2013
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Projects, Learning Activities, Active Learning
The Projectisation, Marketisation and Therapisation of Education
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Brunila, Kristiina – European Educational Research Journal, 2011
Publicly funded projects with economic aims and discourses have permeated the public sector, including education. In practice this has meant a shift whereby publicly funded education has evolved into a series of business-oriented projects with individually targeted activities. The rapidly increasing amount of project-based work in education is a…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Educational Change, Public Education, Programs