The figure of the independent learner: on governing by personalization and debt.
Taking the European Credit and Transfer System as its departure point, this article describes the (mis)fortunes of the figure of the independent learner. This figure is conceptualized by analyzing the expectations of the European learning space that is enacted in discourses, instruments and practice...
| Published in: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 813 - 828 |
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Dec2021
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