The release of subjectivity by freeing up school time. On the commodification of identity, culture of competence and a certain possibility of escaping compulsory individualization Cover Image

Uwolnienie podmiotowości przez u-wolnienie czasu szkoły. O komodyfikacji tożsamości, kulturze kompetencji i o pewnej możliwości wyjścia z zatrzasku indywidualizacji
The release of subjectivity by freeing up school time. On the commodification of identity, culture of competence and a certain possibility of escaping compulsory individualization

Author(s): Karolina Starego
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: fetishization of identity; neoliberalization of education; educationalization; learnification; culture of competence; free time

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to describe the mechanisms of commodification and fetishization of identity, which in the neoliberal, individualistic context, are tied with the process of the creation of entrepreneurial self. M My aim is also to describe how these processes function in schools and in the wider, educational context. Two phenomena, described by contemporary educational research – the educationalization/pedagogization, and the reduction of the importance of schools that comes with the popularity of the notion of “learning” – play important role in my analysis. M My second purpose is to present an alternative way of thinking about education – understood as a process of de-subjectivization, of leaving the dominant rationalities behind; and schools understood as places where people are free from the influence of social and economic factors and thus experience “free time”. I In this context I I locate the main thesis of the paper – about the necessity of breaking with the subject-centered paradigm of change.

  • Issue Year: 5/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 42-65
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish