
Fredrik Sandberg
Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

Individualisation in Swedish Adult Education and the Shaping of Neo-liberal Subjectivities
Author
Summary, in English
In this article we have analysed the ways a discourse on individualisation is taking shape within adult education in Sweden, how it operates, and what effects it has in terms of shaping student subjectivity. Drawing on a post-structural theorisation we analyse interviews with teachers and students in municipal adult education and folk high schools (FHS). The analysis illustrates how both institutions contribute to the shaping of individualised subjectivities, although differently. At the end, a general question is raised about what happens with the democratic function of adult education in general when a discourse on individualisation operates in the ways described and, more specifically, asks what is happening to FHS as an educational practice that upholds its self-image as a last bastion of a collective notion of learning and subjectivity and nurturing an educational practice of learning democracy?
Publishing year
2018
Language
English
Pages
461-473
Publication/Series
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
Volume
62
Issue
3
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Topic
- Educational Sciences
Keywords
- Adult education
- folk high schools
- governmentality
- individualisation
- municipal adult education
- popular education
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0031-3831