Individualisation in Swedish Adult Education and the Shaping of Neo-liberal Subjectivities

Fejes, Andreas; Olson, Maria; Rahm, Lina; Dahlstedt, Magnus; Sandberg, Fredrik

doi:10.1080/00313831.2016.1258666

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“…As Lindblad and Popkewitz (2000) argue, education can be seen as a way of modernising society and creating citizens who will contribute to the development of a stronger and better society. In this sense, education can be understood as a way of strengthening the nation and producing desirable subjects (see, e.g., Brunila and Siivonen 2016;Fejes et al 2016;Hultqvist 2004;Sandberg et al 2016;Masschelein 2008a, 2008b;Simpson 2007;Åkerblom and Fejes 2017) However, education can also be regarded as a solution to a range of other challenges in society, as shown in the following quotation taken from a fact sheet produced by The Public Health Agency of Sweden (2015):…”

Section: Perceptions Of Educationconnections and Contributionsmentioning

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The will to include – education for becoming a desirable citizen

Åkerblom

2019

Pedagogy, Culture & Society

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Contemporary understandings about the importance of a 'desirable population' have become intimately related to the pursuit of education and lifelong learning. In order to enable this, higher education operates as a technology for shaping desirable citizens. This paper focuses on a project in Sweden that aimed to include students with intellectual disabilities in higher education. Drawing on Foucault's notion on governmentality and subjectivity, the analytical focus is on which kinds of subjects are created in and emerge from the project's policy documents. The prospective students emerge as different and in need of special measures and are assigned particular knowledge that creates expectations and opportunities for them to regulate and foster themselves as desirable subjects in spaces where governing techniques such as surveillance and confession operate. Rather than including these students, the measures instead lead to further exclusion by creating, manifesting and reproducing the otherness it was supposed to counteract.

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Section: Perceptions Of Educationconnections and Contributionsmentioning

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The will to include – education for becoming a desirable citizen

Åkerblom

2019

Pedagogy, Culture & Society

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“…Vi har utnyttjat triangulering i vårt analytiska arbete i syfte att öka studiens trovärdighet. Med triangulering avses att vi närmar oss datamaterialet från våra olika perspektiv men med en delad idé om att söka uttryck för medborgarskap i deltagandet (jämför exempelvis Cohen, Manion & Morrison, 2002;May, 1993). En av oss, Annika Pastuhov, genomförde själva fältarbetet men tillsammans har vi strävat till att förstå materialet genom regelbundna dialoger och samskrivande.…”

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Medborgarskap mellan närhet och distans - en etnografisk studie i en studiecirkel i filosofi - Citizenship between proximity and distance - an ethnographic study of a study circle in philosophy

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2017

Nordic Studies in Education

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The purpose of this article is to contribute to the understanding of enactments of citizenship through participation in a study circle in philosophy. Citizenship is viewed as comprising acting and being in-and-through the study circle. This links citizenship to social contexts, actions and education. The study was conducted as an ethnographic field study over eight months. In total nine people, men and women of different ages, gathered once a month. The participants shared an ambition to form an open group for all interested in philosophy. Here, the ideals of freedom and voluntary participation led to both inclusion and exclusion.

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“…occupational choice), their background, their ideas about the future, and their ideas about what they do in their everyday life, which is effectively "doing" citizenship" (for the wider project, see e.g. Nicoll et al, 2013;Olson et al, 2015;Fejes et al, 2016).…”

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Becoming the role model: youth recreation leaders, occupational choice and a will to include

Fejes

Dahlstedt

2017

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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The aim of this article is to analyse how a discourse on the role model operates in youth recreational work. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concepts of subjectivity, discourse and power/knowledge, the article analyses interviews with youth recreation leader students enrolled at a folk high school, and their talk about occupational choice. The analysis illustrates how a discourse on the role model emerge and operate through the ways students' descriptions of 'being', and 'doing' intersect with their becoming as role models. The analysis raises several important questions. Should youth recreational work only target those young people who are already marginalised? Are there other subject positions than the role model, available to take up in youth recreation work? Are experiences of marginalisation necessary in order for a desirable youth recreation leader to emerge?

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Individualisation in Swedish Adult Education and the Shaping of Neo-liberal Subjectivities

Cited by 21 publications

References 20 publications

The will to include – education for becoming a desirable citizen

The will to include – education for becoming a desirable citizen

Medborgarskap mellan närhet och distans - en etnografisk studie i en studiecirkel i filosofi - Citizenship between proximity and distance - an ethnographic study of a study circle in philosophy

Becoming the role model: youth recreation leaders, occupational choice and a will to include

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