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Dahlstedt, Magnus; Fejes, Andreas – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
The focus of this article is the discourse of entrepreneurship education in Sweden. Drawing on a genealogical approach, the analysis draws attention to how this discourse is shaped in the curriculum today, and how it has come to emerge. Focusing on two key events that constitute this discourse, responsibility and problem-solving, and tracing these…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Responsibility
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Olson, Maria; Dahlstedt, Magnus; Fejes, Andreas; Sandberg, Fredrik – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Role of Education
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Schierup, Carl-Ulrik; Alund, Aleksandra – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2011
In this essay, the authors venture into the convoluted reality of a contemporary Europe, which they fear that intellectual enterprises, unwittingly, underpin: an incipient European "plural society" marked by a xenophobic cultural branding of "the Other", the erosion of citizenship, urban revolts among disadvantaged youth, an…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Disadvantaged Youth, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
Bron, Agnieszka, Ed.; Schemmann, Michael, Ed. – 2001
This second volume of the Bochum Studies in International Adult Education presents a variety of different perspectives on the topics of citizenship and civil society. Its goal is to give an overview of the European discourse on citizenship and civil society and on the discourse in some selected countries. Part I is comprised of the first of 14…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Citizenship
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Blom, Margot – Social Education, 1987
Presents Swedish views on Iran-Contra hearings and outlines issues for classroom instruction. Stresses the need to examine both the positive and negative effects of the media and the importance of teaching democratic principles. (DH)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Critical Thinking, Democracy, Foreign Countries
Medel-Anonuevo, Carolyn, Ed. – 2002
This publication is comprised of 43 papers on the topic of promoting lifelong learning. The papers in Part 1, Overcoming False Dichotomies, are "Lifelong Learning in the North, Education for All in the South" (Torres); "Practice of Lifelong Learning in Indigenous Africa" (Omolewa); "Gender and Information Societies"…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Citizenship
Field, John, Ed. – 1991
This collection of papers examines the role of adult education in encouraging active citizenship throughout Europe. "Introduction: The Project" (John Field) discusses the context in which the other papers were written and briefly discusses citizenship education and research in Great Britain. "Learning, Education, Citizenship: What…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Citizenship Education