On the occasion of Affiliated Professor Stephen Ball’s visit
All-day seminar: Neoliberal re-structuring of education and welfare services – adaptation, resistance, refusals and forms of critique?
Since the cold war ended in the 1980s, and the critique of the welfare state was voiced even stronger, global liberalism in terms of neoliberalism gained territory. The domination of neoliberalism has led state activities to be directed at marketization, competition, accountability, and performativity within education and welfare provision in general. These state activities are also directed at behavioural matters and cultural and social change (e.g., in terms of valuational standards and normalisations), compelling agents of education and welfare services to adapt, resist or refuse the structural transformations. The question we want to pursue in this seminar is how these processes and transformations proceed and are enacted and/or contested, what they mean to agents of education and welfare services (both professionals/providers and participants/users), and how they frame, influence and ‘make sense’ in the actual practices of the institutions that provide education and welfare services.
The seminar presentations will inquire into how this sense-making and these struggles unfolds both within the fields of education and welfare services, and within the scientific and intellectual fields related to the study of education and welfare services.
Programme:
10.00-11.00: A politics of ourselves: Foucault and refusing neoliberalism – Professor Stephen J Ball, University College London (presentation and discussion)
11.15-12.30: Presentations and discussion
A critical approach to daycare work as civilizing welfare work – PhD scholar Sofie Rosengaard, University of Copenhagen
Ethics as Critique: Foucault’s Contribution to Research Ethics – Associate Professor Gerd Christensen, University of Copenhagen
The use of irrelevant educational research – Assistant Professor Marta Padovan-Özdemir, University College VIA
12.30-13.30: LUNCH
13.30-14.30: Presentations and discussion
Critical ethnographic research - challenged by the new orders of magnitudes – Professor Karen Borgnakke, University of Copenhagen
Carnevalization and Cannibalization. Working with Baudrillard in the field of education and globalization – Associate Professor Ulla Ambrosius Madsen, University of Roskilde
14.45-16.00: Presentations and discussion
Other voices - day care centers working for democracy and children’s agency – Professor Jan Kampmann, University of Roskilde
Critique, truth-telling and the spongy dynamic of welfare work in the margin – Associate Professor Trine Øland, University of Copenhagen
Foucault as analytical strategy for studying neo-liberal governance: A talk about concepts, potentials and limitations – Professor Kaspar Villadsen, Copenhagen Business School
16.00-16.30: CLOSING DISCUSSION
Registration: If you wish to participate in the event, please send an e-mail to Trine Øland: troeland@hum.ku.dk before September 26, 2016.
