Mobilizing Foucault: history, subjectivity and autonomous learners in nurse education

摘要: In the past 20, years impact of progressive educational theories have become influential in nurse education particularly relation to partnership and empowerment between lecturers students development student autonomy. The introduction these was response criticisms that characterized by hierarchical asymmetrical power relationships encouraged rote learning stifled This article explores how work Michel Foucault can be mobilized think about autonomy three different yet overlapping ways: as a historical event; discursive practice; part an overall strategy produce specific subject position. implications for practice are that, rather than site where empowered, is both factory laboratory new subjectivities continually being constructed. suggests empowering practices disciplinary uneasily co-exist. Critical reflection needs directed not only at structural dimensions but also on ourselves asking Foucauldian question: How you interested autonomy?