Sick of Studying: Mental @Illness@ and UK Neoliberal Higher Education Policy

厌倦学习：心理@Illness@和英国新自由主义高等教育政策

• 批准号: 2093798
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2093798
• 关键词: Sick; Studying; Mental; Illness; UK

The increased incidence of student mental health issues is routinely dissociated from higher education policy as a symptom of a natural, individual and a-political 'ilness'. This study contends that student mental 'illness' is a fundamentally socio-political phenomenon that is (re)produced through neoliberal higher education policy discources and structures as an instrument of neoliberal power; that certain mental 'illnesses' are (re)defined, produced and (re) produce neoliberal power relations. Through critical literature review and service-user unterviews, the research aims to forge a new three-tier cross-disciplinary democratic and socio-centric research and policy framework that will (re)conceptualise student mental 'illness' within the context of the discourse-truth-knowledge-power-subject relations of neoliberal higher education policy. Tier 1 proposes that mental 'illness' is a discursive, contextual phenomenon and inherently (re)defined in opposition to neoliberal higher ethico-economic normality. Tier 2 proposes that mentally 'ill' student subject is (re)produced, both externally and internally, through neoliberal disciplinary power relations within higher education policy. Tier 3 proposes that this (re)production of mental 'ilness' is inherent to four cour tenets of neoliberal philosophy: 1) Neoliberal Govermentality; 2)Neoliberal Subjectivity; 3)Neoliberal Regulation & 4) Neoliberal Consumption. From this theoretical standppoint, this study advocates and analyses service-user interview transcripts to develop effective, responsive and preventative service-user led recommendations for both higher education policy and mental health service delivery.

学生心理健康问题的增加通常与高等教育政策无关，因为这是一种自然的、个人的和非政治的“病态”症状。本研究认为，学生心理疾病从根本上说是一种社会政治现象，是通过新自由主义高等教育政策话语和结构作为新自由主义权力工具而产生的；某些心理疾病是(重新)定义、产生和(重新)产生新自由主义权力关系的。通过批判性文献回顾和服务使用者的观点，这项研究旨在打造一个新的三级跨学科民主和以社会为中心的研究和政策框架，将在新自由主义高等教育政策的话语-真理-知识-权力-主体关系的背景下(重新)概念化学生的精神疾病。第一层提出，精神疾病是一种话语的、背景的现象，本质上(重新)定义为反对新自由主义更高的伦理-经济常态。第二层提出，通过高等教育政策中的新自由主义纪律权力关系，从外部和内部(重新)产生精神上有问题的学生主体。第三层提出，这种(重新)产生精神上的“病态”是新自由主义哲学的四个核心原则所固有的：1)新自由主义政府心态；2)新自由主义主体性；3)新自由主义规则；4)新自由主义消费。从这一理论角度出发，本研究主张并分析服务使用者的访谈记录，以期为高等教育政策和心理健康服务的提供提供有效的、响应性的和预防性的服务使用者主导的建议。