Browsing by Subject "hallinnan analytiikka"
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(2018)This thesis examines the discourse of future working life and working skills as advanced liberal government. The aim of the thesis is to create understanding regarding what the discourse of future working life and working skills include and what are they about to produce. As empirical material I chose to use two reports of Ministry of Education and Culture, two reports of Finnish Government and one report published by STTK Union of employees. They all examine the phenomenom of changing working life and factors related to it such as digitalization, knowledge, employment and lifelong learning. In my thesis I use critical discourse analysis as a methodological framework. I examine discourses from the point of view of the theory of advanced liberal government considering what kind of governance, relations of power or drives of influence can be found in these discourses. As a framework for the analysis I use the concept of political rationalities by Nikolas Rose and the process of translation by Michel Callon. As a result of my thesis I found that the discourse of future working life and working skills is determined by a few themes that stand out repeatedly from reports. These themes were for example the theme of inevitability, business-focused discussion and that the change of work is seen as a threat and ideal employee is seen as eternally adaptive multi talent. One conclusion of the analysis is that the empirical material of the thesis expresses rationality of the adaptive employee. By applying the process of translation developed by Callon, it is possible to see how individuals are conducted and worked towards the ideal subject of employee via different steps of the process. The point of view of my thesis is consciously critical, because I hope to question things that might otherwise be seen as natural and inevitable and by doing this I wish that contrary thinking becomes possible.
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(2017)The aim of the Master's thesis was to investigate the perceptions held by various social actors on the pupil and student welfare during the enactment of the first integral act on pupil and student welfare (1287/2013). The political interest in pupil and student welfare has increased in the past two decades and it is now seen as part of the preventative activities seeking to curb the social exclusion of children and young people. The present research is concerned with the sociopolitical purpose(s) of pupil and student welfare as defined in the referral statements of the draft law. The underlying paradigms of the statement givers' discourse are investigated in the theoretical framework of analytics of government. The purpose of the research was to contribute to the understanding of the sociopolitical discourse(s) on the welfare of children and young people, to shed some light on the ideological currents behind these discourses and to shake their self-evident and uniform nature. The empirical data of the research consisted of 55 referral statements of the draft law available on the web page of the Finnish Government. The reading of the data was based on the basic assumption of critical discourse analysis of the interconnected relationship of language and power. Meaningful phrases were conceptualized into theoretical regimes of governing for the purposes of the analysis. In addition to the "welfare state" and "neoliberal" regimes, the analysis is contextualized by the historical development of the pupil and student welfare and the referral statement procedure. In order to analyze the sociopolitical purpose of pupil and student welfare, four categories were created to illuminate the discourses consisting of the nature, object, realization, responsibility and form of the pupil and student welfare activity. The research shows that the discourse on the sociopolitical purpose of pupil and student welfare has adopted the linguistic concepts of the neoliberal regime although there is variation to be found in the rationalities defining the pupil and student welfare. The focus of the discourse was not the wellbeing of the individual but the needs of the society. This state of affairs common to all four discoursive categories created a tense relationship between the individual and society that was seen to be in connection with the typical sociopolitical discourse of today and to disengage the pupil and student welfare from its historical premise.
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