(Education For) Work Sets You Free: "Employability" and Higher Education in Former Yugoslavia and Its Successor States

Autor/in	Bacevic, Jana
Titel	(Education For) Work Sets You Free: "Employability" and Higher Education in Former Yugoslavia and Its Successor States
Quelle	In: European Journal of Higher Education, 4 (2014) 3, S.281-296 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2156-8235
DOI	10.1080/21568235.2014.916534
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Employment Potential; Higher Education; Discourse Analysis; Educational Policy; Educational Sociology; Educational Anthropology; Educational Practices; Educational Change; Politics of Education; Labor Market; Education Work Relationship; Social Change; Educational History; Yugoslavia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Diskursanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungssoziologie; Erziehungssoziologie; Pädagogische Anthropologie; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsreform; Educational policy; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Sozialer Wandel; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Jugoslawien
Abstract	Recent analyses of education policy discourses in Europe and beyond note the rise of the discourse of "employability" as a new form of regulating the relationship between universities, markets and the state. Education and labour market relationships are also considered to be one of the main aspects of postsocialist transition. This contribution compares the construction of these links in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1970s and in its successor states today. Drawing on sociology and anthropology of policy and studies of education as a practice of governmentality, it shows how policy discourses from two distinct political and historical contexts nevertheless exhibit continuity in terms of empowering the state via agentification of markets, employers or the working class. Interpreting this continuity in the context of changing political and economic orders, the contribution argues for a more nuanced understanding of "socialism," "postsocialism," or "neoliberalism" in the analysis of education policies. (As Provided).
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