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Schooling and State Formation in Early Modern Sweden

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Authors:
  1. Bengt Sandin

    1. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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  • Examines the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century
  • Studies how different cultural systems influence the definitions of childhood and schools, in the context of church and home instruction, poor relief, policing and surveillance
  • Assesses the role of the school as childcare and as a provider of food, shelter and welfare, and as governance

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood (PSHC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Bengt Sandin
    Pages 1-26

  3. Education, Childhood, and State-Formation during the Seventeenth-Century Background

    • Bengt Sandin
    Pages 27-90

  4. Public Education and the School System in Stockholm in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century

    • Bengt Sandin
    Pages 91-187

  5. Education for All? Changing Childhoods: Education in Swedish Towns in the Eighteenth Century

    • Bengt Sandin
    Pages 189-242

  6. Childhoods and Education in Towns in the Early Nineteenth Century

    • Bengt Sandin
    Pages 243-320

  7. Family and School: One Reality and Different Perspectives

    • Bengt Sandin
    Pages 321-370

  8. Continuity and Change: Social and Political Space for Children and Childhood

    • Bengt Sandin
    Pages 371-378

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 379-420
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About this book

In this book the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century provides the framework for a history of children and of childhood. It is a study through the lens of the changes in early modern education, spatial aspect of the life of children and systems of governance in the early modern Swedish state. Educational systems defined the spatial aspects of childhood—where children were supposed to grow up, in the home, the school, the streets and alleys, or the place of work—over a period of about two hundred years. Schools and education represent both a mental and a physical space; an abstract place for children as well as a local and concrete place for them, which stood out against the alternative spatial aspects of the life of children. It is also a study of how different cultural systems influence the definitions of childhood and schools, in the context of church and home instruction, poor relief, policing, surveillance, and the question of whychildren went to schools. It examines the role of the school as childcare and as a provider of food, shelter and welfare, and as governance.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Bengt Sandin

About the author

Bengt Sandin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Thematic Studies, Unit of Child Studies, at the University of Linköping, Sweden.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Schooling and State Formation in Early Modern Sweden

  • Authors: Bengt Sandin

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56666-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56665-4Published: 08 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56668-5Published: 08 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56666-1Published: 07 November 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6532

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 420

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Social History, History of Education, Childhood, Adolescence and Society

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