Enacting the utopia of eradicating homelessness: toward a new generation of activity-theoretical studies of learning

Eradicating homelessness is one of the most pressing challenges for efforts aimed at equity and social justice in the world. Many people who experience homelessness have histories of violence, growing up in child protection institutions, involvement in criminal activities, and mental and health prob...

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Published in:Studies in continuing education 2020-05, Vol.42 (2), p.163-179
Main Author: Sannino, Annalisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult education
Change Laboratory
Change Strategies
Educational Research
Enacted utopias
expansive learning
Finnish Housing First
Foreign Countries
fourth-generation activity theory
Homeless People
homelessness
Housing
Intervention
Learning
National Programs
Public Policy
Social Theories
transformative agency
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Summary:Eradicating homelessness is one of the most pressing challenges for efforts aimed at equity and social justice in the world. Many people who experience homelessness have histories of violence, growing up in child protection institutions, involvement in criminal activities, and mental and health problems connected with substance abuse. Homelessness is, therefore, a phenomenon which requires coherent and consistent cross-sectoral service integration and interorganisational service production. The way this challenge has been addressed so far in Finland may be interpreted as enacting a utopia when compared with other realities and the predominant views of impossibility to eradicate homelessness which stem from them. The article drafts an agenda aimed at disclosing how the utopia of eradicating homelessness is being enacted, what learning this involves, and how research on work and learning can concretely mediate and support the enactment processes.
ISSN:0158-037X
1470-126X
DOI:10.1080/0158037X.2020.1725459