Student learning processes and student identity in an adult basic education programme

Anne Winther Jensen

Student learning processes and student identity in an adult basic education programme

Anne Winther Jensen

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Abstract

The paper discusses the shaping of students´ identity within a vocational education programme for elderly care in Denmark. The focus is on the correlation between identity construction within the theoretical periods and students´ experiences in the traineeships. The construction of student identity implies a construction of elderly identity, and the paper points to the constructions being one-sided and the one-sidedness as complicating the meeting between care helper students and embodied elderly in need of care. The analysis of the identity issues mobilises the concept ‘storyline’, c.f. Bronwyn Davies and Foucault´s ‘governmentality’ and the empirical material consists of observations in the theoretical periods and in the traineeships. The paper suggests that a shift from identity to subjectivity may help students to deal with a diversity of storylines and thereby aid the elderly to have their storylines recognised.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Publikationsdato	2011
Antal sider	9
Status	Udgivet - 2011
Begivenhed	7th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning - East China Normal University, Shanghai, Kina Varighed: 4 dec. 2011 → 7 dec. 2011 Konferencens nummer: 7 http://www.rwlecnu.org/en-us/Home.aspx

Konference

Konference	7th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning
Nummer	7
Lokation	East China Normal University
Land/Område	Kina
By	Shanghai
Periode	04/12/2011 → 07/12/2011
Internetadresse	http://www.rwlecnu.org/en-us/Home.aspx

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