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Adult education students, and practitioners in the field, would benefit enormously from reading such a clear exposition of Foucault's ideas, and i shall certainly be using it in my own postgraduate seminars. - Stephen Brookfield, University of St. Thomas, Studies in the Education of Adults, Spring 2013 I really enjoyed the book. It is definitely a timely contribution to the field of adult learning and education. First, the analysis of various lifelong learning practices through the lens of confession is compelling. Second, the use of different empirical material promoting multiple rather than uniform readings is inspiring. Third, the emerging picture of how learning has become a vital part of the various examined sites is valuable. Fourth, the finding of how several practices, spread from formal to informal, in fact seem to consolidate what appears to be a hegemonic, unquestionable truth is important. - Liselott Aarsand, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, January 2014 The readers of this review have probably by now noticed that I appreciate the quality of Fejes' and Dahlsted's research and writing highly. 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. - Danny Wildemeersch, University of Leuven, International Journal of Lifelong Learning, January 2014 An interesting and well- written book which uses Foucault- type analyses to disturb and deconstruct things which are taken for granted today. - David A.L.Coldwell, University of the Witwatersrand, International Review of Education

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Dr. Magnus Dahlstedt is an Associate Professor in ethnic studies at Linkoping University, Sweden. He is a member of the Centre of Excellence REMESO, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society, the leading centre in Sweden in the field of ethnic and migration studies (40 persons), and a member of numerous international research networks and cooperative initiatives. Among his primary research interests are the politics of inclusion/exclusion, citizenship education and multiculturalism. He is the author and editor of eight books (most recently The Politics of Activation: Democracy and Citizenship at the Turn of the Millennium, in Swedish, published by Liber 2009), and he has published in books and peer-review journals such as Alternatives, British Journal of Sociology of Education, International Sociology, Policy Studies and Scandinavian Political Studies. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Open Political Science Journal. Dr. Andreas Fejes is an Associate Professor (Reader) in education at Linkoping University, Sweden. He is a member of a research unit, which has one of the world's largest concentrations of researchers in the field of adult and lifelong learning (40 persons). The unit is research intensive and international in scope with numerous international publications, collaborations, etc. Professor Fejes conducts research in the field of lifelong and adult learning, mostly drawing on poststructuralist theories. He is the author and editor of four books (e.g. Foucault and Lifelong Learning: Governing the Subject, published by Routledge in 2008, with co-editor Katherine Nicoll), and he has published extensively in peer-review journals such as Journal of Education Policy, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Journal of Advanced Nursing, International Journal of Lifelong Education and Studies in the Education of Adults and many book chapters. He is also the secretary of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) and is the initiator of the new journal European Journal for Research on Adult Education and Learning.

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