Abstract
The future is rarely problematised in education even though it is self-evident in everyday schoolwork and present also in the management of education. However, we should understand how different future visions influence our understanding of education. In this paper, we apply rhetorical analysis and study how the future of education is rhetorically constructed in Finnish policy texts. Also, we analyze the special characteristic of Finnish future visions, which are based on the idea of Finnish education being top-notch. We focus explicitly on the idea of knowledge and its future relations in school education. In our data, the current school is rhetorically contrasted with the future one. This hastens the need to modernize Finnish school system. This view is reinforced by the needs of the economy and working life. Pathos is frequently used as a rhetorical strategy. Finns are warned about remaining in the past and obliged to change their education immediately. Future visions of Finnish education seem to be limited only to positive aspects.
Highlights
School education, knowledge and the ambiguous futureGoverning education in relation to the expected future of society is a global phenomenon
In this paper we focus on how future visions, resonating with the aforementioned Future II type of knowledge approach, are played out and used for jamming other futures in the Finnish policy rhetoric on future education and learning in Finnish schools
We have introduced how the future of education and its prominent forms of school knowledge are rhetorically constructed in Finnish policy texts
Summary
Knowledge and the ambiguous futureGoverning education in relation to the expected future of society is a global phenomenon. Keywords School education, policy documents, rhetorical analysis, future policies, knowledge In this paper we focus on how future visions, resonating with the aforementioned Future II type of knowledge approach, are played out and used for jamming other futures in the Finnish policy rhetoric on future education and learning in Finnish schools.
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