Academization is a phenomenon which plays an increasing role in the training programmes for the semi-professions. In Denmark academization has been researched from a predominantly student perspective, as an analysis of how abstract forms of knowledge dominate competencies for care and nursing amongfemale students. This article examines academization as a discursive phenomenon. It shows how academization has been produced through historicaldevelopments of the educational policies surrounding the semiprofessionalschools. Furthermore, the article discusses what consequences academizationmay have as a knowledge/power structure for the production and repression of professional identities
