On-track to what? Foucauldian analysis of Victorian post-compulsory education policy Kamp, Annelies 2004, On-track to what? Foucauldian analysis of Victorian post-compulsory education policy, in AARE 2004 conference papers collection, Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, Vic., pp. 129-129. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title On-track to what? Foucauldian analysis of Victorian post-compulsory education policy Author(s) Kamp, Annelies Conference name Australian Association for Research in Education. Conference (2004 : Melbourne, Vic.) Conference location Melbourne, Vic. Conference dates 28 Nov. - 2 Dec. 2004 Title of proceedings AARE 2004 conference papers collection Editor(s) Jeffrey, Peter L. Publication date 2004 Start page 129 End page 129 Publisher Australian Association for Research in Education Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Summary Current ideas of adolescent development portray a slow steady movement toward adulthood. These notions developed hand in hand with social practices that evolved in the latter half of the 19th century and contemporaneously with modernisation. During this period conceptions of adolescence included longer stays in school, organised leisure activities, juvenile justice policies and the protection of youth from child labour. Lesko (2001) works from a position that the modern age is defined by time, an understanding that events and change are meaningful in their occurrence in and through time. She examines adolescence as partaking of panoptical time which is condensed and commodified; a time framework that compels us - scholars, educators, parents, and teenagers - to attend to progress, precocity, arrest, or decline" (2001 p.41). Panoptical time can be used to explore how ideas of what is 'normal' development can be used to privilege particular ways of being an adolescent, to monitor who is deemed to be 'at risk' of not conforming to that model and to govern their behaviour. A Foucauldian analysis suggests the formation of 'at risk' identities reflects historically specific discourses. An understanding of how these and other discursive constructions are formed opens the way for resistance. This presentation explores the recent implementation of On-Track and On-Track Connect within Victorian government policy and explores the experience of a Local Learning and Employment Network in implementing the policy. ISSN 1324-9339 Language eng Field of Research 139999 Education not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 930501 Education and Training Systems Policies and Development HERDC Research category E3 Extract of paper Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30014372 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 21 Oct 2008, 14:21:57 EST Mon, 31 Aug 2009, 09:53:10 EST Wed, 02 Sep 2009, 11:44:49 EST Wed, 03 Nov 2010, 13:59:06 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 09:20:46 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 351 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 21 Oct 2008, 14:21:57 EST