Musiikkikasvatus ja markkinahallinta

Abstract

Starting point to this study and the main focus of the research process is in the problematics of the 21st century curriculum reforms in Finland. During 2010’s in public and political discourses there was a consensus on strengthening the artistic and practical subjects including music education in general school. But the final political decisions and political discursive space led partly but substantially to opposite consequences. There seems to be major problems in the way of advanced liberalism perceives, conceptualize and forms the practices and conditions of education and schooling. It seems to marginalize the meanings of general music education and the praxial philosophy of music education has not been able to argue the basis of music education and express clearly its social connections. To summarize the logic of this study and reasoning proceeds from critical historical contextualization to discourse analysis. After the contextual analysis I have applied Foucauldian based analytics of government to frame the political reason of advanced liberalism and how it defines the conditions of education. Finally, I will outline how the relationship between music education and ethos of present education policy could be considered in a new way. I have two main research questions: 1. What kind of framework and conditions does market liberal governance create for music education and reforms of general education? 2. How the ethos of economist education policy can be questioned? The key concepts and dimensions of market liberal political reason are homo economicus as the subject of education, effectiveness and efficiency as the conditions of desired practices, measurability and computational techniques of evaluation as an epistemic core and competition and profitability as a mechanism controlling agency. The conclusions of the analysis point out that economistic educational reason is too reductionist to provide the adequate basis for education and music education. Hence agency and capability to act together, subjectification, imaginativeness and conduct of life could reframe the conditions of music education and reveal the blind spot of the general education in the biopolitics of present. Keywords: music education, philosophy, education policy, curriculum, Foucault, analytics of government.