Title Neoliberalios valdysenos įtaka Lietuvos tautinių mažumų švietimo politikai socialinės politikos kontekste /
Translation of Title The Influence of Neoliberal Governmentality on the Education Policy of Lithuanian National Minorities in the Context of the State’s Social Policy.
Authors Dambrauskas, Karolis
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Is Part of Lietuvos socialinė raida: Socialinių ir etninių mažumų grupių įtrauktis Lietuvoje.. Vilnius : Lietuvos socialinių tyrimų centras. 2020, 9, p. 28-45.. ISSN 2029-963X. eISSN 2424-497X
Keywords [eng] Social policy ; national minorities ; education ; governmentality ; responsibilisation.
Abstract [eng] The article analyses the policy of Lithuanian national minorities in the context of the country's social policy, using M. Foucault’s post-structuralist, deconstructive governmentality approach. The advantage of this approach is that it allows to analyse the governing of people, populations, or certain population groups through interrelated governmental rationales and technologies (Foucault 1991). One of the possible elements of social policy – education policy of national minorities – is analysed paying special attention a governmental technique called “self-responsibilisation” of individuals, characteristic of neoliberal type of governmentality. The article defines the welfare state as the state's desire to ensure the welfare and security of its citizens and asks how much responsibility the Lithuanian state has assumed for the education of national minorities and how much it tried to transfer this responsibility to the national minorities themselves over the years of independence. It is also argued that at the beginning of independence, education of national minorities was influenced by the conservative welfare model fostered at the time (formation of a network of Lithuanian and national minority schools of different subordination in the Vilnius region, when the former are controlled by the central government and the later by the local government dominated by national minority politicians), but in the second decade of independence education was reached by general tendencies of liberalization of the country's welfare model (optimization of the school network for efficiency and quality first for individuals and less for the collectives).
Published Vilnius : Lietuvos socialinių tyrimų centras
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2020