The aim of this paper is to investigate and describe the content in school rules by developing a category system of school rules, and thus making the logic behind different types of rules in school explicit. Data were derived from an ethnographic study conducted in two primary schools in Sweden. In order to analyse the data, grounded theory…

Examines the history of two Swedish pre-school institutions: (1) the child-crib, a full-day institution for supervision of children of poor parents and (2) the kindergarten, a pedagogically-based half-day activity for children of wealthier parents. Explores the social contexts in which these family and childcare institutions belonged. (CMK)