‘Smart state’ for a knowledge economy: reconstituting creativity through student subjectivity

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Hay, Stephen
Kapitzke, Cushla
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2009
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Rejecting notions of creativity as self-realisation through free expression, this article argues that such discourses currently driving education policy comprise intellectual technologies for the production of student subjectivities required by neoliberal contexts. Using a governmentality framework, it locates the conditions of possibility for the creative subject within dominant policy articulations of the global knowledge economy and emerging rationalities of risk and uncertainty. The analysis focuses on an industry school partnership formed by a state education system in Queensland, Australia, and several multinational corporations. It examines how the partnership has emerged as a novel neoliberal space for the constitution of new education figures such as the enterprising teacher and the entrepreneurial student-worker. These subjectivities are functional to the devolved governing strategy of social investment, which seeks to achieve a broad reconstitution of relationships between students, schools and industry in Queensland.

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British Journal of Sociology of Education

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30

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2

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Secondary education

Vocational education and training curriculum and pedagogy

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Sociology

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