The psychological turn in higher education and the new taxonomy of attitudes and emotions:Denmark as a case study

Autor: Sarauw, Laura Louise, Smedegaard Ernst Bengtsen, Søren, Filippakou, Ourania
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Sarauw, L L, Smedegaard Ernst Bengtsen, S & Filippakou, O 2023, ' The psychological turn in higher education and the new taxonomy of attitudes and emotions : Denmark as a case study ', Policy Futures in Education, pp. 1-15 . https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1177/14782103231173017
DOI: 10.1177/14782103231173017
Popis: This article explores the increased concern with students’ well-being in higher education as a mode of governance that goes hand in hand with new mechanisms of exclusion. Focussing on a new student survey in Denmark that measures students’ well-being, we show how the well-being agenda is entangled with a new ‘taxonomy of attitudes and emotions’ that align with neoliberal ideals about the self-efficientand self-governing individual. Implied is a notion of learning as a smooth and effortless process, which may lead to individualization of structural challenges.With particular although not exclusive reference to the Danish case, we suggest that this new entanglement between well-being and learning represents a narrowing view on the role and purpose of higher education, which devalues the educational value ofdoubt, bewilderment and moments of uncertainty. Paradoxically, the well-being agenda may therefore lead to the pathologization of widespread student experiences.
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