The main theme of the Social Exclusion and Pedagogy in the Welfare State (SEP) research programme is the interaction between social exclusion processes, people’s everyday lives, educational institutions and the welfare state.
The research programme focuses on how children, young people, adults and elderly people in vulnerable positions experience and manage their everyday lives, how social and educational institutions look at, meet and work with different groups of individuals in vulnerable positions, and how these processes is affiliated to societal structures and terms.
At the same time the research programme examines social, psychological and educational processes through which individuals and groups are problematized, discriminated against and stigmatized. These processes are illustrated and analyzed at a societal and institutional level in socially, culturally and historically specific contexts.
