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Adult education and teachers’ work under a market code Open
In this article we investigate the implications of a market orientation of adult education for teachers’ work with the curriculum and for the goals and purposes of education. By focusing on municipal adult education (MAE) in Sweden, we pro…
Adult Migrants’ Language Learning, Labour Market, and Social Inclusion Open
In this thematic issue, we present up‐to‐date research from authors who problematise the various links between adult migrants’ language learning, education, the labour market, and social inclusion. Some contributions are more focused on th…
Editorial: Inclusion, adult education and social justice Open
In this thematic issue we now present an interesting selection of contributions that cover a varied range of both theoretical and empirical reflections on the connection between inclusion/exclusion and practices of adult education.
Social Inclusion Beyond Education and Work: Migrants Meaning‐Making Towards Social Inclusion Open
In public discourse, the social inclusion of migrants is often regarded as a challenge demanding migrants to increase their engagement in adapting to the new host country. Such imaginaries commonly declare migrants as being unwilling to ac…
Exploring the themes of the territory: a topic modelling approach to 40 years of publications in<i>International Journal of Lifelong Education</i>(1982–2021) Open
The question of what the research of lifelong education is all about needs to be revisited from time to time. Not only is this line of research approached from a multitude of academic disciplines - such as sociology, psychology or philosop…
Language introduction as a space for the inclusion and exclusion of young asylum seekers in Sweden Open
Purpose: In this article, we focus on the language introduction (LI) programme for newly arrived migrants aged 16-19 in Sweden. We ask how it is organized for inclusion and what kinds of exclusion arise from such an organization. More spec…
Mobilising experiences of migration Open
Adult education and its teachers have an important role when it comes to providing knowledge that prepares asylum seekers for a potential life in a new country of residence. In this article we focus on the study circles organised by study …
Adult education and migration Open
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“Branding <i>Bildung</i>”: Commodifying the Uniqueness of Popular Education Open
Popular education has a long history in Sweden, dating back to the mid-1800s and having developed in close relationship with the state. This relationship has been sustained over the years by the way popular education is spoken of as being …
‘Lack of quality’ in Swedish adult education: a policy study Open
This article focuses on how ‘problems’ regarding quality in adult education are constituted as particular sorts of ‘problems’. The analysis takes its point of departure in a poststructural analytic strategy called ‘What’s the problem repre…
Auctioning out education: On exogenous privatisation through public procurement Open
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 f…
A place called home: the meaning(s) of popular education for newly arrived refugees Open
In this article, we direct our focus on some of the recent activities undertaken by popular education institutions in Sweden in relation to the refugee challenge in 2015. The aim is to analyse how these popular education activities are sha…
The re-emergence of Suggestopedia: teaching a second language to adult migrants in Sweden Open
Despite previous critical studies on the method, Suggestopedia has re-emerged as a popular method for second language teaching and learning in Sweden. In this article, we focus on what characterises Suggestopedia teaching in Swedish as a s…
The Use of Bibliometrics in Adult Education Research Open
The aim of this chapter is to introduce a methodological approach that can be used in order to analyze how the adult education research field is shaped through research practices, measurement standards and indexation. More specifically, we…
Shaping the democratic, relational, and reflective youth recreation leader Open
Youth recreation centres have been a key institution in providing young people with meaningful activity after school, going back to the mid- twentieth century in Sweden. These centres have been the focus of research, but very few studies h…
Use-Values for Inclusion: Mobilizing Resources in Popular Education for Newly Arrived Refugees in Sweden Open
In times of market reforms and international migration, the Swedish welfare model has been seriously challenged. In the context of the arrival of refugees in 2015–2017, the state turned to civil society in facing up to the challenges. In t…
Choosing one’s future? Narratives on educational and occupational choice among folk high school participants in Sweden Open
This article poses these questions: How do participants on two different courses in folk high schools in Sweden, a basic course and a theatre course, motivate their educational and occupational choices, and what similarities and difference…
RELAs 10-year anniversary Open
The first issue of RELA was published in 2010, so with this issue we enter the 10-year anniversary. In this editorial, we will firstly elaborate on what we as editors find that RELA has accomplished. Secondly, we introduce changes that are…
Citizenship and the crisis of democracy Open
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Special issue: professional practice, education and learning: a sociomaterial perspective Open
This Special Issue of Studies in Continuing Education presents a collection of research papers, particularly focusing on issues related to work practices, knowing, organising, professions and the r...
Futures in line? Occupational choice among migrant adult students in Sweden Open
The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which migration plays outin adult students’ narratives about their occupational choice and future,focusing on three individual narratives of adult students with variousexperiences of migrat…
How do teachers interpret and transform entrepreneurship education? Open
During the last decade, entrepreneurship education has become a central curricular topic in many locations in the world. In Sweden, entrepreneurship education was implemented in the curriculum for the first time in 2011, as something that …
Editorial: Intersectionality and adult education Open
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Dissonant futures: occupational trajectories, gender and class in contemporary municipal adult education in Sweden Open
The aim of this article is to problematize the ways class and gender are played out in adult students’ narratives about their occupational choice and future. Drawing on Beverly Skeggs, we analyse how students think about future occupations…
Longing to Belong: <i>Stories of (non)belonging in multi-ethnic Sweden</i> Open
The aim of this article is to contribute to an understanding of contemporary processes of negotiations concerning belonging and non-belonging to the Swedish social community. Taking on a theoretical approach on belonging inspired by Yuval-…
The economy of publications and citations in educational research: What about the ‘Anglophone bias’? Open
In this piece, we argue that an economy of publication and citations has emerged that not only changes the notion of what is deemed quality in educational research but also changes the incentives of us as researchers. With pressure on publ…