Abstract
How do we address normativity and ableism in adult education? Moreover,
how do we embrace diversity in adult education regarding the learning
efforts of young disabled adults?
“Adulthood” in adult education refers to an understanding of “the
adult” as a perfect, species-typical and therefore essential and fully hu-
man, casting the young disabled adults as a diminished state of being hu-
man. In adult education, young disabled adults become cast as “dis/adults”
through the lenses of critical dis/ability studies and the workings of the
dis/ability complex. It becomes clear that any enquiry into an ableist belief
system in adult education requires some form of articulation on the under-
pinnings of such a system. This begs the question: what undergirds no-
tions of ableism in adult education, which constitute educational ableism
through practices of exclusion in Danish Adult Education Centres?
how do we embrace diversity in adult education regarding the learning
efforts of young disabled adults?
“Adulthood” in adult education refers to an understanding of “the
adult” as a perfect, species-typical and therefore essential and fully hu-
man, casting the young disabled adults as a diminished state of being hu-
man. In adult education, young disabled adults become cast as “dis/adults”
through the lenses of critical dis/ability studies and the workings of the
dis/ability complex. It becomes clear that any enquiry into an ableist belief
system in adult education requires some form of articulation on the under-
pinnings of such a system. This begs the question: what undergirds no-
tions of ableism in adult education, which constitute educational ableism
through practices of exclusion in Danish Adult Education Centres?
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | New Challenges - New Learning - New Possibilities : Proceedings from the 9th Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning 2022 |
| Editors | Johan Lövgren, Lasse Sonne, Michael Noah Weiss |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Place of publication | ResearchGate |
| Publisher | LIT Verlag |
| Publication date | 1 Dec 2023 |
| Pages | 163-180 |
| Chapter | 10 |
| Commissioning body | University of South-Eastern Norway |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-643-91658-7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-643-96658-2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2023 |
| Event | Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning: New challenges - new learning - new possibilities - Vestfold, University of South-Eastern Norway, Tønsberg, Norway Duration: 18 May 2022 → 20 May 2022 Conference number: 9 https://www.usn.no/activities/9th-nordic-conference-on-adult-education-and-learning |
Conference
| Conference | Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning |
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| Number | 9 |
| Location | Vestfold, University of South-Eastern Norway |
| Country/Territory | Norway |
| City | Tønsberg |
| Period | 18/05/2022 → 20/05/2022 |
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