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Study Circles. Coming Together for Personal Growth and Social Change. A Report on This Long-Standing Phenomenon in Adult Education as It Has Been Integrated into Swedish National Life and Is Now Being Applied in North America.
Oliver, Leonard P. – 1987
The study circle concept, now almost a century old, is by far the most popular form of adult education in Sweden. Swedish study circles are sponsored by 10 national educational associations that receive substantial annual subsidies from the national government. Together with 140 folk high schools (residential adult programs), university short…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Discussion Groups, Educational History