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The paper’s primary focus is on young adults studying to be candidates from university, their hopes and expectations for the future in regard to understandings of ’the good life’, and what makes up ’a good life’. This being the point of departure, the paper investigates ‘studenthood’ as subjectification in a communicative relation to discourses that dominate the debate on education today. In order to explore, what constitutes these discourses, I have analyzed a small article written by the Danish Minister of Education that bring discourses about education into play. The analysis of the students’ subjectification of themselves as ‘students’, in relation to these discourses, is based on nine qualitative interviews. I have applied foucauldian, poststructuralist concepts, such as power and knowledge, with the intent of finding out how binary categories are established in the students’ narratives and how they position themselves in relation to them. For the analysis I have applied Sara Ahmed’s concepts on emotions, as I have found that many of the students direct a significant amount of discomfort towards their expectations of the future. The paper shows which possibilities for subjectification become available for the students, in an educational context, in the pursuit of their dreams for the future and ‘the good life’. |
