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  • Uusliberalismi suomalaisen peruskoulun rattaissa 
    Karstila, Juhani (2019)
    This bachelor’s thesis deals with neoliberalism in the Finnish elementary school system. The term neoliberalism is usually defined trough freedom, efficiency and justice in a society. The purpose of this bachelor’s thesis is to view the discourses of the neoliberalism politics in the field of Finnish educational science. My aim was to discover the effects neoliberalist politics have had in Finnish elementary school. Discussion about schools and education is visible on many platforms. We all have some kind of experience about our school system. Neoliberalist politics have received lot of criticism in the Finnish educational sciences. My goal is to reveal this criticism through research Finnish educational scientists have done in this area. Neoliberalism is a hard term to define and it can be mostly found in discussions concerning critical views. Previous studies present the effects of neoliberalism when it comes to emphasizing market economics in school politics. In the study I have two research questions. Firstly, how is neoliberalism reflected in the Finnish elementary school curriculum? Secondly, how is neoliberalism reflected in the politics of school choice? This study shows that neoliberalism-oriented thinking spread widely to the Finnish school system in the 1990’s because of various political actions. Several amendments of the law have introduced market features in the Finnish school system. Examples of these paths include the content of Finnish elementary school curriculum with lot of discourse about neoliberalism. Changes in school choice options have made some schools winners and others loser in regard to student material. Entrance statistics showed that old schools in the city center were more popular than schools located in the suburbs. The study also showed that Finland has managed to avoid many neoliberalists paths around the world in its school system.
  • Yritän, siis olen : yrittäjämäisen yksilön identiteetin rakentuminen yrittäjyyskasvatuksessa 
    Väisänen, Tero (2016)
    The objective of this study was to examine can entrepreneurship education be seen as neoliberal governmentality. I was specially intrested about what kind of identities entrepreneurchip education tried to build to students. I also looked what kind of features were attached to these identities and what kind of reality and human figure they builded. Because entrepreneurship education in this study was seen as a form of neoliberal governmentality, I compared the human figure that was builded in entrepreneurship education to neoliberal human figure and tried to find similarities on them. From these results I tried to figure, could entrepreneurship education be seen as a form of neoliberal governmentality. I selected four different entrepreneurship education documents as my research material. One document was made by state, one was provincial, and other two were municipal entrepreneurship education programs and strategies. I applied critical discourse analysis to analyze these documents. In my material I looked for discourses that handled those features that were attached to entrepreneurship. After this I examined in the light of my theory, what kind of social reality was built in these discourses. I found three different dominant discourses in my material: intrapreneurship discourse, responsibility discourse and individuality discourse. Intrapreneurship discourse highlighted entrepreneurial features that was linked in change of work, such as flexibility and change management capability. Discourse built reality where change was inevitable and individual just had to adapt in it. Responsibility discourse built idea of person that has to take all responsibility of himself and his family. So person is provider of his own welfare, not the state. Individuality discourse highlighted persons own individuality, which was also possibility for them, but it was also obligation which they needed in constant competition. These discourses appear in my study as a form of neoliberal governmentality, which allow to manipulate individuals thinking and action in such way, that it is easier to justify neoliberal changes in society.

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