What the field of adult education research is and how it can be described has been a debated issue over the decades. Several scholars argue that the field today is
Privatisation of public education is becoming more and more common across the world. As much current research presupposes causal links between the degree of privatisation and issues of competition and student’s free choice, we see a need for research on other ways of organising the presence of private providers in public education. In this article, we study how two Swedish municipalities use public procurement to contract private providers and organise adult education. Interestingly, we find that competition is more heavily at play in the municipality that outsources half of its adult education, than in the municipality that outsources all adult education. We view these findings as vital for understanding how education is being outsourced to private providers and for furthering the discussion on the consequences of the ongoing privatisation of education.
This article examines music auditions of jazz education and the artistic valuation of music performances by gatekeepers working in two prestigious schools. Using the inherent insecurities of the entry-test situation as a site of ethnographic fieldwork, the paper explores the whole chain of valuation needed in order to produce a hierarchical ordinal ranking of the candidates. By drawing attention to the distinction between what is being said and what is being done by the gatekeepers, a structural ambiguity is identified in the selection game: on the one hand, it is dependent on romantic notions of artistic uniqueness (originality, personality, authenticity) and on the other, it relies on the requirements of jurisdiction and equal assessment (numerical grading, standardized repertoire). The artistic doxa of jazz is constituted in opposition to two negative characters, either by framing the candidates as epigones -echoing the standard repertoire too closely -or framing them as heretics, considered as traitors the local interpretation of the standard.
This paper explores the process of transnational institutional matching between elite institutions in Singapore and Great Britain, and the role of state-sponsored scholarships in enabling this process as political and administrative elites are selected and groomed. Using data gathered from in-depth interviews conducted with Singaporean undergraduates studying at Oxbridge and a dataset compiled of the institutional origins of 580 Singaporean government scholars, the analysis illustrates how students are being matched from two Singaporean junior colleges to Oxbridge and back to the higher strata of the Singaporean Public Service. We show that the educational trajectories of these government scholars need to be addressed in relation to the informational capital acquired in specific elite schools as well as the governing roles these individuals are meant to obtain within the state upon graduation.
Avhandlingen består av fyra empiriskt orienterade artiklar där studiekarriärer till och från folkhögskolornas musiklinjer studeras. Med utgångspunkt i relationell utbildningssociologi, metodologiskt såväl som teoretiskt, analyseras musiklinjernas sociala rekrytering, inträdesregler och relation till högre utbildning och professionella musikfält. Med hjälp av statistisk från individdataregister och enkätundersökningar riktade till musiklinjeansvariga tecknas en bild av det utbildningslandskap där folkhögskolelinjerna i musik är en del. Genom etnografiskt fältarbete av de mest prestigefyllda jazzlinjerna och deras musikauditions, undersöks hur det går till när urvalet till de dominerande linjerna sker. Resultaten visar hur musiken vuxit till att bli den volymmässigt största inriktningen bland folkhögskolornas särskilda linjer och hur de är att betrakta som intermediärt positionerade i det svenska utbildningslandskapet i musik. Musiklinjerna visar sig hierarkiskt organiserade mellan högt och lågt och differentierade mellan elit- och massutbildningar. Argumentet framförs att man kan betrakta tillgångar i musik som en särskild kapitalform, vad som i avhandlingen benämns ett musikkapital, vilket gradvis differentieras och blir beroende av genrespecifika erkännanden. Selektionen till musiklinjerna i jazz präglas av en serie spänningsförhållanden mellan tradition och förnyelse, teknik och känsla, regelföljande och regelbrott samt mellan institutionella och karismatiska värderingspraktiker.This thesis examines the music careers to and from folk high school training programs through four empirical articles. Building on relational sociological theory and methods, predominantly the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the thesis first provides a cartographic analysis of the cultural hierarchies of folk high school music training within the Swedish educational landscape. The investigations show how music has grown to become the biggest thematic orientation among the specialized programs of the folk high schools. They also reveal how these programs can be positioned at an intermediary stage, while being differentiated between mass- and elite- schooling. Next, the thesis outlines detailed analyses of the recruitment base of the dominating music programs in jazz and the study careers of their participants. By means of relational statistical methods, we investigate the inclusion into and exclusion from elite educational programs in jazz, and uncover the force and composition of a specific form of music capital. Analysis from an in-depth ethnographic account of the gatekeeping procedures of jazz auditions allows for the discussion of several tensions between evaluation and value, rulefollowing and rule-transgression, as well as charismatic and institutional means of valuation
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