European higher education policy and the formation of entrepreneurial students as future European citizens

Papatsiba, Vassiliki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-1162 2009. European higher education policy and the formation of entrepreneurial students as future European citizens. European Educational Research Journal 8 (2) , pp. 189-203. 10.2304/eerj.2009.8.2.189

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Abstract

In this article, the author argues that European education policies and rhetoric are imbued with orthodoxy of agency and models of empowered, entrepreneurial actors, striving to surpass the limits of national boundaries. Free circulation of citizens has progressively underpinned a new construction of ‘the European’, who is entrepreneurial, flexible and mobile. Ideals and practices of mobility have been premised on two competing agendas: one that focuses on economic imperatives, and the other that relates to a tradition of forming the citizenry. European Union higher education policy via student mobility programmes has been an effective vehicle for conveying images and models of the European citizen, untied from national bounds and with a thirst for new ventures and learning opportunities apt to convert into skills and capital. Arguably these policies, as rationalities with governing ends, aim to form identities and subjectivities. Although it can be argued that new facets of agency are made available to those who are willing to embrace entrepreneurial models, the question is whether and how these ‘talk back’ to a society and a polity in search of common good.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	1474-9041
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2024 11:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/164918

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