The Formation of the Willing Citizen -- Tracing Reactive Nihilism in Late Capitalist Adult Education

Autor/inn/en	Olson, Maria; Dahlstedt, Magnus; Fejes, Andreas; Sandberg, Fredrik
Titel	The Formation of the Willing Citizen -- Tracing Reactive Nihilism in Late Capitalist Adult Education
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50 (2018) 1, S.95-103 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2017.1338933
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Adult Education; Citizenship Education; Role of Education; Adult Students; Social Systems; Individual Development; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Citizenship; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Bildungsauftrag; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Social system; Soziales System; Individuelle Entwicklung; Schweden
Abstract	The role of education in citizen training has been well mapped out in youth education. What has been less studied is how this role comes into being in adult education. By providing illustrative empirical examples from a recently completed study of adult students enrolled in adult education, this article aims to offer a theoretical response to the question of the role of adult education in adult student citizen subjectivity formation. Taking on Diken's concept of "reactive nihilism", we wish to make the following arguments. First, that citizen formation in adult education, when students are asked about it, is actualised as processes of re(dis)covery of will in order to be(come) a successful and happy citizen in society. Secondly, that these processes point towards a role of adult education as one where these formation processes work in tandem with those of the reactive nihilists. This means that the citizen formation processes made possible in this educational site are those marked out by the desire to mobilise one's will formation so that it adapts to the prevailing societal situation--that of late capitalism, which is a situation not considered by the adult students as possible to change. (As Provided).
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