A Vocational Calling: Exploring a Caring Technology in Elderly Care

Autor/inn/en	Fejes, Andreas; Nicoll, Katherine
Titel	A Vocational Calling: Exploring a Caring Technology in Elderly Care
Quelle	In: Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 18 (2010) 3, S.353-370 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1366
Schlagwörter	Allied Health Personnel; Nurses; Career Choice; Caring; Older Adults; Health Services; Self Concept; Work Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Älterer Erwachsener; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Selbstkonzept; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Ausland; Schweden
Abstract	In this article we explore the relationship of care of a group of health care workers in elderly care, through their descriptions of themselves and their work. We have an interest in how relationships of care may be explored and characterised in and across disparate vocational settings. This is a critical response to policy discourses of citizenship that are currently emerging for re-emphasis in Europe through citizenship education and the idea of the active citizen. We mobilise two notions to help us in the analysis of interview transcripts. First, "calling" is used as a figure of thought. Past religious and secular discourses of calling to God and nursing provide us with glimpses of past relations of vocation and care through which to consider present descriptions. The term "technology of the self" is one drawing specifically from the work of Michel Foucault, through which we theorise the calling to care emerging from our interviewee descriptions as such a technology. Our analysis indicates that a specific calling to care and technology is mobilised by these health care workers in elderly care. We conclude that it is through such stabilisations of description that the health care workers' shape context-specific subjectivities, as caring citizens. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10