Discourses on employability: Constituting the responsible citizen

Studies in Continuing Education

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-102

  Fejes, Andreas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Elderly care; Employability; Foucault; Governmentality; Responsibilisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954845559     PISSN: 0158037X     EISSN: 1470126X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0158037X.2010.488353     Document Type: Article

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