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Author Fejes, Andreas, 1977- author.

Title Adult education and the formation of citizens : a critical interrogation / Andreas Fejes, Magnus Dahlstedt, Maria Olson and Fredrik Sandberg
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 137 pages)
Series Routledge research in lifelong learning and adult education series
Routledge research in lifelong learning and adult education series.
Contents The problem of citizen formation -- Setting the scene -- Individualisation -- Normalisation -- Role modelling -- Recognition -- Class and gender -- Non-belonging -- The roma -- Will formation -- To the end
Summary "Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens turns attention towards normative claims about who adults should become through education, and what capacities and skills adults need to develop to become included in society as full citizens. Through these debates, adults are construed as not yet citizens, despite already being citizens in a formal sense; this book problematises such regimes of truth and their related notions of the possibilities and impossibilities of adult education and citizenship. Drawing on empirical examples from the two main adult education institutions in Sweden, folk high schools and municipal adult education, it argues that, through current regimes of truth, these institutions become spaces for the re-shaping of the "abnormal" citizen. The book suggests that only certain futures of citizenship and its educational provision are made possible, while other futures are ignored or even made impossible to imagine. Offering a unique focus on critically problematising the role of adult education in relation to the fostering and shaping of citizens, the book addresses the important contemporary challenges of the role of adult education in a time of migration. Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of adult education, lifelong learning and education."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 05, 2018)
Subject Adult education and state.
Citizenship -- Study and teaching (Adult education)
EDUCATION -- Adult & Continuing Education.
EDUCATION -- Non-Formal Education.
Adult education and state.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018021217
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