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School-based drug education: the shaping of subjectivities

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how school-based drug education programmes in
Australia have sought to reduce adolescent drug use.
Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on insights from Foucault’s later works and writers on
governmentality, the paper considers how, through the use of various technologies, techniques and
strategies, students have been encouraged to problematise their understanding of self by way of a
series of choices they are required to make in relation to recreational drug use.
Findings – Drugs are positioned as a key factor in the psychic and social well-being of youths insofar
as their health and personal happiness is said to depend on the decisions they make concerning their
use of drugs. In the process, moral and political objectives are met as students internalise norms,
values and objectives consonant with a self-disciplined, self-governing society.
Practical implications – By bringing into question school-based drug education, a space is created
for further discussions around this historically controversial strategy.
Social implications – What is common to all school-based drug education programmes is that the
problem is conceptualised in terms of individual and interpersonal deficiencies or inadequacies.
Conceptualised thus, both the problem and the solution lay with the individual; it is the individual who
must change.
Originality/value – The focus of this paper has not been on why school-based drug education is
needed or how to improve it (the focus of most research on the subject), but rather on the methods
employed to influence student use of recreational drugs. By identifying how school-based drug
education has sought to shape student subjectivities, this paper has exposed specific moral and
political dimensions of the project.

Keywords Australia, Foucault, Choice, Personal development, Recreational drug use,School-based drug education, Technologies of the self

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History of Education Review

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: Emerald Group., 2014

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History of Education Review Vol. 43 No. 1, 2014 pp. 95-115

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