Adult Education as a Heterotopia of Deviation: A Dwelling for the Abnormal Citizen

Autor/inn/en	Sandberg, Fredrik; Fejes, Andreas; Dahlstedt, Magnus; Olson, Maria
Titel	Adult Education as a Heterotopia of Deviation: A Dwelling for the Abnormal Citizen
Quelle	In: Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 66 (2016) 2, S.103-119 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-7136
DOI	10.1177/0741713615618447
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adult Education; Public Education; Discourse Analysis; Educational Policy; Interviews; Adult Educators; Adult Students; Student Characteristics; Postmodernism; Employment; Student Motivation; Student Responsibility; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Öffentliche Erziehung; Diskursanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Postmoderne; Dienstverhältnis; Schulische Motivation; Schweden
Abstract	We argue that municipal adult education (MAE) can be seen as a place for displaced and abnormal citizens to gain temporary stability, enabling their shaping into desirable subjects. Drawing on a poststructural discursive analysis, we analyze policy texts and interviews with teachers and students. Our analysis illustrates how two distinct but interrelated student subjectivities are shaped: the rootless, unmotivated, and irresponsible student; and the responsible, motivated, and goal-oriented student. The difference is that the latter of these subjectivities is positioned as desirable. MAE provides a temporary place in time, a heterotopia of deviation, allowing students to escape precarious employment. The heterotopia places the students in a positive utopian dream of the future. A utopia is not a real place, and what is to become of the students after finishing MAE is not determined; the students themselves should shape it. If they fail, in line with a neoliberal governmentality, it is their own fault. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01