%0 Journal Article
%T (Re)Inserting The Subjective ¡°I¡± : Globalization, Neo-Liberalism & Student Agency In Post-Secondary Education
%A Sarah DesRoches
%J Les Ateliers de l¡¯¨¦thique
%D 2011
%I Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al
%X In an increasingly globalized world, post-secondary education is being reduced to instrumental and economic ends; a significant effect of this is that student agency is undermined. Students are incited to perform neo-liberal values that subvert their willingness (and potentially their ability) to think of their post-secondary experience as anything other than professional training. Neo-liberal values do inhibit individuality and agency within a post-secondary context; however, from a Foucaultian perspective, the dominant discourse can never squelch the possibility of alternative discourses from emerging, thereby unhinging the seemingly cemented reality described above. In the first section of this paper, I will provide a theoretical overview of globalization, its relationship to neo-liberalism and how these have impacted post-secondary education. This overview will enable me to consider a very specific example of how neo-liberal ideology is being manifested in post-secondary classrooms: namely, the reluctance of pre-service teachers to use the first person singular pronoun in their research papers.De plus en plus, l'¨¦ducation post-secondaire est r¨¦duite ¨¤ une fin instrumentale et ¨¦conomique. Un effet important de cette instrumentalisation est que la capacit¨¦ d'agent (agency) des ¨¦tudiants est compromise. Les ¨¦l¨¨ves sont incit¨¦s ¨¤ adopter des valeurs n¨¦o-lib¨¦rales qui mettent en ¨¦chec leur volont¨¦ (et potentiellement leur capacit¨¦) de penser leur exp¨¦rience post-secondaire comme autre chose qu'une formation professionnelle. Dans ce contexte post-secondaire, les valeurs n¨¦o-lib¨¦rales refoulent l'individualit¨¦ et la capacit¨¦ d'agent; mais dans une perspective foucaldienne, le discours dominant n¡¯est jamais fig¨¦, les discours alternatifs permettant de lever l'emprise d'une r¨¦alit¨¦ qui peut appara tre ciment¨¦. Dans la premi¨¨re section de cet article, je vais brosser un aper u th¨¦orique de la mondialisation et de sa relation avec le n¨¦o-lib¨¦ralisme, en particulier au niveau de ces impacts sur l'¨¦ducation post-secondaire. Cette vue d'ensemble me permettra d'¨¦tudier une manifestation tr¨¨s pr¨¦cise de l'id¨¦ologie n¨¦o-lib¨¦rale dans les classes post-secondaire, ¨¤ travers la r¨¦ticence des enseignants du pr¨¦-service ¨¤ utiliser la premi¨¨re personne du singulier dans leurs travaux de recherche.
%K ethics
%K education
%U http://www.creum.umontreal.ca/IMG/pdf_07_Desroches.pdf