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Daniel Tröhler; Sophie Winkler – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Our guiding thesis in this article is that the recent burgeoning discussion of differentiation in the context of education has to do with critiques of the globalization theories that have been popular since 1990. In doing so, however, these critically motivated discussions run the risk of overlooking the historical roots of differentiation, which…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Global Approach, Nationalism, Politics of Education
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Sara Backman Prytz – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
The educational mission of most western schools today includes the nurturing of children's sexual upbringing, which many scholars see as a way of controlling their sexuality and forming them into "sexual citizens." This article examines how official Swedish school guidelines and textbooks have mediated sexuality norms through education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Guidelines, Textbooks
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Rebecka Göransdotter – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
From a Nordic and British perspective, the history of education is a vibrant field of knowledge production. It invites scholars from the humanities and social sciences to investigate the continuities and changes in education over time, as well as "Bildung," nurturing, learning, and teaching. By underlining the breadth of the history of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Comparative Education, Humanities, Social Sciences
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Björn Boman; Marcus Mosesson – Discover Education, 2023
Relating to world culture theory, this article aimed to discern similarities and differences between the South Korean national curriculum (1981, 2015) and the Swedish national curriculum (1980, 2018) and a set of complementary documents, both more broadly and with special emphasis on middle school level mathematics education. The findings suggest…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Middle School Mathematics
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Daniel Nyström – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2023
This article addresses the ways in which Swedish history textbooks for upper secondary schools published between 1994 and 2011 deal with the most recent past. The textbooks are chronologically organized and follow history into the textbook authors' time, and each new edition of the textbooks includes the latest developments. The article inquires…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, Textbooks, Secondary Schools
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Westberg, Johannes – History of Education, 2023
The history of education is, and can be, many things. In this article, I argue that the history of education in the Nordic countries is marked by three phases, based on its institutional setting. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the history of education was written by schoolmen for schoolmen. In the post-war era, the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Research, Educational Sociology
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Rahm, Lina – Learning, Media and Technology, 2023
The relationship between technical development and education is a reciprocal one, where education always stands in relation to those skills, competencies, and techniques that are anticipated as necessary in a technological future. At the same time, skills and competencies are also necessary to drive innovation and technical development for the…
Descriptors: Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Educational History, Genealogy
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Westberg, Johannes – History of Education, 2022
The nation-state remains fundamental to our understanding of nineteenth-century schooling, which is commonly referred to in terms of national school systems or national education systems. While nineteenth-century school systems were often national in scope and promoted with the purpose of creating nationally minded citizens, this article examines…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Policy
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Hammar, Isak; Östh Gustafsson, Hampus – History of Education Review, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to investigate attempts to safeguard classical humanism in secondary schools by appealing to a cultural-historical link with Antiquity, voiced in the face of educational reforms in Sweden between 1865 and 1971. Design/methodology/approach: By focusing on the content of the pedagogical journal…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Change, Humanism, Educational Philosophy
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Carl-Filip Smedberg – History of Education, 2025
In the 1960s, people across the West started imagining that they were in a societal transition. Crucially, in these future-oriented discussions, social class was often transformed into educational attainment as the main dividing line. These future studies garnered attention across the political spectrum, including the Swedish Conservative Party.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Political Attitudes, Industrialization, Foreign Countries
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Hultqvist, Elisabeth; Lidegran, Ida – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
We seek to consider the use of Pierre Bourdieu's 'cultural capital' within Swedish sociology of education focusing on the adoption of the term and asking how the 'cultural capital' is related to the specific context in Sweden. Here we consider the historical context and disciplinary route through which the concept travelled. The Swedish…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
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Anne Berg; Johanna Ringarp – History of Education, 2024
This article seeks to introduce a new historical explanation as to why left-wing working-class women engaged in liberal, middle-class organisations during the first wave of feminism. The article specifically deals with middle-class associations and clubs that had educational purposes. Instead of focusing on the larger explanatory scheme of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Educational History, Working Class
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Prytz, Sara Backman; Westberg, Johannes – History of Education Quarterly, 2022
Starting in the late nineteenth century, the teaching profession became increasingly feminized. This article examines the results of this process, exploring the working and living conditions of rural female primary school teachers with a focus on the experiences of loneliness, harassment, and violence that they suffered in early twentieth-century…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Violence, Teaching Conditions, Housing
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Westberg, Johannes – Global Education Review, 2023
The 19th century saw the rise of mass schooling. School acts were published, increasing number of teachers were trained and hired, and children increasingly attended schools. This development was strongest in Europe and North America, with schooling in the USA, France and Prussia leading the way. While this development with its national and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational History, European History
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Nordholm, Daniel; Wermke, Wieland; Jarl, Maria – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
The aim of this article is to explore how Swedish principals experienced the decentralisation and re-centralisation reforms and how they affected principals' autonomy and decision-making capacity. Data were obtained from three surveys of Swedish principals, carried out in 2005, 2012 and 2019. The results show that principals experienced a high…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational History, Professional Autonomy, Decision Making
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