Katariina Mertanen

University of Helsinki | HY · Faculty of Educational Sciences

Yksityisen sektorin merkitys nuorten koulutuksen järjestämisessä on vahvistunut Suomessa viime vuosikymmenien aikana merkittävästi. Valmennuskursseja, koulutusteknologiaa ja erilaisia hyvinvointi- ja opiskelijapalveluita tarjoavien yritysten verkosto vahvistaa jatkuvasti asemaansa koulutusta määrittelevissä ja rakentavissa keskusteluissa. Analysoim...

Hyväksytty julkaistavaksi Kasvatus-lehdessä

The OECD has become a notable predictor of the future needs of society and education. In youth education, the OECD spearheads global strategies, initiatives and recommendations about the curriculum and goals for education. By evoking the sense of 'crisis' in 'traditional education' the OECD functions as a central node of precision education governa...

Accepted manuscript for Globalisation, Societies and Education -journal

Managing the future has become one of the major focuses of global governance in education. In its current mode, education seems unable to answer the needs and interests of the market and future megatrends, such as globalisation and digitalisation. Calls for precision education to introduce the usage of digital platforms, artificial intelligence in...

Managing the future has become one of the major focuses of global governance in education. In its current mode, education seems unable to answer the needs and interests of the market and future megatrends, such as globalisation and digitalisation. Calls for precision education to introduce the usage of digital platforms, artificial intelligence in...

There is general agreement overall about the desirability and importance of youth support systems as being crucial for young people ‘at risk’ to help them cultivate their subjectivities about employability. In this article, we take a closer look at these support systems and especially at outreach youth work in Finland. We focus on the construction...

Young people’s unemployment and social exclusion – the so-called ‘youth problem’ – is one of the main focuses in Finnish youth policies. We examine youth policies and youth support systems by applying a framework of policy analysis developed by Carol Bacchi. We ask 1) what kind of problematisations in youth policies and their implementations produc...

In this dissertation, I scrutinise how the ‘youth problem’—young people’s unemployment, social exclusion, and marginalisation—is governed in the European Union’s and Finland’s youth policies and youth policy implementation in Finland. The ‘youth problem’ as well as young people ‘at risk’ are constructed as a threat to the unity and prosperity of fu...

Young people's unemployment and social exclusion-the so-called 'youth problem'-is one of the main focuses in Finnish youth policies. We examine youth policies and youth support systems by applying a framework of policy analysis developed by Carol Bacchi. We ask 1) what kind of problematisations in youth policies and their implementations produce th...

Tutkijatohtori Tuuli Kurki, Helsingin yliopisto (kasvatustiede): Miten eriarvoisuus näyttäytyy jatkuvan oppimisen kentällä? Nuorten syrjäytymisen syyt ovat syvällä yhteiskunnan rakenteissa-tutkijat pitävät yksilökeskeistä lähestymistapaa ongelmallisena Yhteiskunnasta syrjäytyneiksi määriteltyjen nuorten ongelmia pyritään korjaamaan lyhytkestoisin r...

This essay is about the ethos of vulnerability, young people, and policies and practices related to youth support systems in Finland. Our aim is to scrutinize the alliance of the ethos of vulnerability and neoliberal rationality as well as its outcomes in terms of support systems and young people from various backgrounds. In the end, we take our an...

This article focuses on neoliberal governing by the European Union of cross-sectoral youth policies directed at young people ‘at risk’. The aim is to show how the alliance of discourses of employability and precariousness in these policies has emerged and how these discourses operate in policy. In the article, we analyse European Council and Europe...

Asiasanat: nuoret, tukijärjestelmät, haavoittuvuuden eetos, diskursiiviset käytännöt Johdanto Nuorten työttömyys ja pääsy koulutukseen ovat olleet viimeisten vuosikymmenten ajan koko Euroopan laajuisia ongelmia, joiden ratkaisemiseksi on kehitetty erilaisia poliittisia toimintaohjelmia. Toimintaohjelmia on toteutettu Suomessa pääasiassa koulutusta,...

This article focuses on neoliberal governing by the European Union of cross-sectoral youth policies related to young people ‘at risk’ of social exclusion and marginalisation. The aim is to show how the alliance of discourses of employability and precariousness in these policies has emerged and is operated. In the article, European Council and Europ...

Prison education is seen in both criminal and education policies as a way of assimilating inmates ‘back into society’. In spite of the policy emphasis on education, the practices in prison education vary from prison to prison. The stated aim of prison education in EU and in Finnish national level policies is to teach inmates the skills and knowledg...

Suomessa vuoden 2013 alussa käyttöön otettu nuorisotakuu toteutuu pääasiassa erilaisissa projekteissa, joita vaivaavat lyhytjänteisyys ja terapialuonteisuus. Ensisijaisesti nuorisotakuu onkin työvoima- ja talouspoliittinen väline, jonka sisältöihin nuorilla itsellään ei juuri ole sananvaltaa. Julkisessa keskustelussa nuoret nähdään usein laiskoina,...

The ethos of vulnerability has come to play an increasingly central role in shaping cross-sectoral transition policies and practices related to young people outside of education and working life. Yet the wider effects of this ethos in policies and practices are still rarely analysed. In this article, we draw our data from five separate studies. The...

Hakkarainen, Hytönen, Makkonen & Lehtonen ehdottivat Aikuiskasvatuksessa 4/2013 ”luonnontieteellisen”, niin sanotun kollektiivisen mallin soveltamista kasvatustieteellisessä jatkokoulutuksessa. Kirjoittajakollektiivi jatkaa keskustelua akateemisen kapitalismin uhasta.