The Confessing Society by Fejes Andreas;Dahlstedt Magnus; & Magnus Dahlstedt

Author:Fejes, Andreas;Dahlstedt, Magnus; & Magnus Dahlstedt [Fejes, Andreas & Dahlstedt, Magnus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2022-05-31T00:00:00+00:00

Shaping the lifelong learning citizen

If we turn to Sweden, we can see how guidance is a central part of the discourse of lifelong learning. Mostly, two aspects are raised: educational guidance (what to study, where to study, when to study, etc.) and career guidance (guidance in relation to studies as a means to pursue a specific career, or as a way to change careers). Within policies on lifelong learning and guidance, there are ideas about the adult as an entrepreneur who should choose education by herself based on where the individual wishes to end up in life. Choices the individual should make do not only concern what to study but also when to study, where to study, how to study, etc. To make such a position possible, guidance is provided as support for the adult (Ministry of Education 2001, 2003).

The argument goes that due to the increasing speed of changes in society and the labour market, the number of possible choices increases and thus support systems need to be put in place to help citizens make their choices. As argued in a Green Paper:

In the Knowledge society, educational and vocational choices are more complex and there are more alternatives. As a consequence of the rapid changes taking place in the labour market and the social life, the need for qualified guidance increases, not the least as a way to counter the tendency of increased gaps in knowledge between individuals and groups in society. The changes and the diversity developing in the labour and educational markets have consequences for the individual. The possible choices to make have increased and they have become more important at the same time as they are even more difficult to make for both youths and adults. The individual needs to develop a good self-knowledge and a broad knowledge about the world. This has to be combined with strategies for learning how to handle oneself in a changing world. Depending on target group and organisation, guidance differs, but the aim is the same; to support the individual to make decisive decisions concerning their educational and vocational direction.

(Ministry of Education 2003: 39)

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