liu.seSearch for publications in DiVA
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • oxford
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Constructing the ideal youth recreation leader: A Foucault inspired analysis
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning.
2018 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Youth recreation centres in Sweden are significant venues for youth to engage in meaningful activities, as a way to counteract increased segregation and social tension. The professionals promoting young people’s social inclusion and fostering positive personal development in this context, are youth recreation leaders. Since young people’s informal learning is construed in relation to youth recreation centre attendance, a question of these leaders’ professionalism is actualized. What knowledge and competencies are needed - and valued as important - to be a ‘good’ youth recreation leader? The aim of this thesis is to explore how the youth recreation leader is shaped and governed through discourses on youth recreational work. How is the discourse shaped, and what kind of subjectivity emerges through it? Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concepts discourse, subjectivity, governmentality, and technologies of power and the self, the thesis analyses policy texts on youth recreation leader education and professional practice, as well as youth recreation leader educators’ talk about the youth recreation leader. The analysis illustrates how four subject positions emerge and are made possible through current discourses on youth recreational work - the democratic, relational, recreation-anchored, and reflective youth recreation leader. These subjectivities are enmeshed in power-relations through which they are fostered into governing themselves and others, i.e. the conduct of conduct. Government operates, for example, through students’ use of portfolios and personal reflection as confession.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. , p. 62
Keywords [en]
Youth recreation leaders, Foucault, discourse, subjectivity, government, ideals
National Category
Pedagogical Work
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-147314ISRN: LIU-IBL/MPEOS-A—18/13—SEOAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-147314DiVA, id: diva2:1214111
Subject / course
Master program in Pedagogical Practices/Education with emphasis in Outdoor Didactics/Special Education
Presentation
2018-05-25, KY26, Linköping, 14:30 (Swedish)
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2018-06-07 Created: 2018-06-05 Last updated: 2018-06-07Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(759 kB)341 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 759 kBChecksum SHA-512
0a058090a37889b6468351db635864958abd749ab7d940b5c4b7025f61bbf8761953ba7dcb09a28aed042d0e088d0a89335a9c3c32c48f32127bbdebb8c28b74
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Ruschkowski, Andreas
By organisation
Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning
Pedagogical Work

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 341 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 1788 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • oxford
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf