Fredrik Sandberg
Docent | Universitetslektor
Individualisation in Swedish Adult Education and the Shaping of Neo-liberal Subjectivities
Författare
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?
Publiceringsår
2018
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
461-473
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
Volym
62
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Educational Sciences
Nyckelord
- Adult education
- folk high schools
- governmentality
- individualisation
- municipal adult education
- popular education
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0031-3831