Lifelong learning has become an increasingly important theme in contemporary society through which each citizen is encouraged to become a constant learner. Such narratives are often seen as positive and all-inclusive. In this book, practices of lifelong learning will be considered as practices of confession. Today, people are constantly encouraged to verbalize themselves to others, be it in TV shows, in newspapers, in family life or together with friends. In this book, the authors argue that society has become a confessing society by illustrating how confession operates in the practices of...
Lifelong learning has become an increasingly important theme in contemporary society through which each citizen is encouraged to become a constant lea...
"I highly appreciate the quality of Fejes' and Dahlstedt's research and writing. They manage to present in a comprehensible way some essential concepts of Foucault that help us to understand better what practices of lifelong learning, in a broad sense, are emerging nowadays in advanced liberal societies. In doing so, they contribute to the renewal of critical thinking in education. They convince me that such renewal is important and necessary...and I think both theoreticians and practitioners of lifelong learning will equally recognize and value this analysis, particularly also, because they...
"I highly appreciate the quality of Fejes' and Dahlstedt's research and writing. They manage to present in a comprehensible way some essential concept...