摘要:AbstractThe background for our study is global trends and traditions of lifelong learning discourses. By analysing political educational documents, we investigate how effects of lifelong learning discourses create shifts in the understanding of professionalism in the landscape of early childhood and schooling in Norway. Building on Foucault's notion of apparatus††For the notion of apparatus, or ‘dispositif’, see Foucault (1978, p. 25). For the idea of assemblage, or putting together components which are ‘fabricated’ in different temporal and spatial contexts, see Rose, 1999, p. 53., we discuss the role of inscriptions like flexibility, outcomes, indicators, and results, among other factors, in securing lifelong learning opportunities as apparatus for change.