Fredrik Sandberg has published an article on “Recognition and adult education: an incongruent opportunity” in the journal Studies in Continuing Education.
Abstract:
Building on narratives of students in adult education in Sweden, where the majority of the students are young adults, this paper argues that adult education has both negative and positive aspects in helping individuals to be recognised as valuable. Students, often part of the precariat class, have not always been able to survive in the job market and have a history of failing in upper secondary school. By drawing on the recognition theory of Axel Honneth, the results show that municipal adult education has the potential to be a transitory learning platform in which the individual can regain esteem that has been lost due to unemployment, precarious employment and failure in upper secondary school. It provides temporary stability. Yet, most students are in a sense forced to study and it is not patent that adult education can help them in their struggle for self-actualisation.
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Sandberg on recognition and adult education
Can adult education help students to see themselves as valuable, given that many students in adult education have often gone through experiences of failure, both at school and in the job market?