Utbildning och hälsa i nationens intresse: Styrningsteknologier och formering av en förädlad befolkning

This thesis consists of four articles about civic education in order to create a well-functioning nation. The purpose of the thesis is to problematise how education and health operate as governing technologies aimed at the population within today's refinement discourse. The theoretical and analytical framework is based on Foucault's concepts of governmentality, biopolitics, discourse analyse and genealogy. The empirical material consists, among other things, of official documents such as SOUs, project reports and web pages. The results show that even if the population and its problems are described as different, it is assumed to be based on, and originate from, ignorance. To address this, education and educative measures operates to create a well-functioning population. The citizens are governed and regulated by neoliberal governance, where techniques such as control and discipline enable mapping, educational efforts, categorisation and regulation. The healthy citizen is expected to be autonomous, to have the will to constantly learn and be healthy in accordance with the norm.