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Westberg, Johannes – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
This article discusses the significance of in-kind taxation and payments in kind for the establishment of an elementary school system in Sweden, in the 1840-1870 period. By analysing the funding of teachers' wages, the heating of the school facilities, and school building construction in the 12 rural school districts of the Sundsvall region, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Educational Finance, Taxes
Andrae, Annika – 1976
The Process Analysis of Non-Grading (PANG) project was initiated from experiences in a small school pilot study of a nongraded school system in Sweden. This small school suggested a nongraded upper comprehensive school (pupil age 14-16 years). Since 1972 the PANG project has successfully worked out a nongraded system at the secondary level in four…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Programs, Evaluation Methods
Andrae, Annika, Ed. – 1976
The Process Analysis of Non-Grading (PANG) project began as a project for evaluating experiments with non-graded education in Stollet in the province of Varmland in western Sweden. Since then the project-work and design has been further developed and now also includes studying the school in its social environment. The project's main objective is…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Curriculum Design, Decentralization, Educational Facilities Design
Foght, H. W. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
This bulletin contains the third section of Harold W. Foght's report on the rural schools of Denmark. This section of the report pertains almost wholly to the folk high schools, which have by common consent been the most important factor in the transformation in the rural life of Denmark and in the phenomenal economic and social development of…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Production, Educational Philosophy, Rural Schools
Lauglo, Jon – 2003
This volume provides an overview of some of the outstanding features of the work of the Norwegian sociologist and comparative educationist, Jon Lauglo. After an introduction, "'It Ain't Necessarily So!': Theories and Observations in Jon Lauglo's World of Education and Training" (Se-Yung Lim and Klaus Schaack), essays and studies are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Career Choice, Decentralization