Fredrik Sandberg
Docent | Universitetslektor
Recognition and adult education : an incongruent opportunity
Författare
Summary, in English
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.
Avdelning/ar
- Pedagogik
Publiceringsår
2016-09
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
265-280
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Studies in Continuing Education
Volym
38
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Routledge
Ämne
- Educational Sciences
Nyckelord
- Adult education
- Axel Honneth
- critical social theory
- recognition theory
- the precariat class
- young adults
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0158-037X