Dissonant Futures: Occupational Trajectories, Gender and Class in Contemporary Municipal Adult Education in Sweden

Autor/inn/en	Dahlstedt, Magnus; Sandberg, Fredrik; Fejes, Andreas; Olson, Maria
Titel	Dissonant Futures: Occupational Trajectories, Gender and Class in Contemporary Municipal Adult Education in Sweden
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 31 (2018) 1, S.16-27 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fejes, Andreas)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2017.1400661
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adult Education; Gender Differences; Social Differences; Adult Students; Career Choice; Student Motivation; Occupational Aspiration; Working Class; Middle Class; Futures (of Society); Observation; Interviews; Qualitative Research; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Sozialer Unterschied; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Schulische Motivation; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Arbeiterklasse; Mittelschicht; Future; Society; Zukunft; Beobachtung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Qualitative Forschung; Schweden
Abstract	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, what motivates them towards these and how they are able to form their future in relation to them. Taking on Sweden as a case, our results show that students' narratives on their future occupations are classed as well as gendered. In their vision of future occupations, working-class students tend to focus on occupations helping and caring for others, while middle-class students tend to focus on work more as a means of fulfilling themselves as individuals. These differences are also gendered. Female students are more likely than their male counterparts to picture their future occupations in relation to having children and a family. This tells us that in the female students' narratives, there tends to be a strong focus on caring--for their families as well as in future occupations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01