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Kåre Hoel, Bustadnavn i Østfold, 12. Rødenes og Romskog, Utgitt av Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, Universitetet i Oslo ved Margit Harsson, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2014, ISBN 978-82- 7099-770-1, 267 pp.
No full textSkola inför rätta: Tolkning och användning av skolhistoria i samtidens debatt om framtidens samhälle och skola
Get PDFSchool on Trial: Interpretation and Use of School History in Contemporary Debate About the Future of Society and School. This article centres on how education and the Swedish School Commission as an historical phenomenon become resources in the discussion on how society and education should be developed. Three authors’ texts on the School Commission are analysed based on narrative history theory, which engages in how history is used to legitimise political change. Education and the School Commission are inscribed in a national narrative of decline. The 1946 Commission is blamed for the perceived problems in present society and education, allegedly having caused a lack of focus on nationalism, morals and knowledge in Sweden. To change society, the message is, education must learn from the historical mistake of the Commission and invest in knowledge and nationalism. The narrative plot is reminiscent of other historical narratives, for example, of heroes (teachers) and villains (Alva Myrdal), who personify structural changes. The historical narrative of education also fits in with contemporary trends of modernism criticism
Martin Ježek, Archaeology of Touchstones. An introduction based on finds from Birka, Sweden, Leiden: Sidestone Press 2017, ISBN 978-90-8890-517-9, 220 pp.
No full textOle-Jørgen Johannessen (ed.), Bergens kalvskinn, Oslo: Riksarkivet 2016 (Kildeutgivelser fra Riksarkivet 3), ISBN 978-82-548-0134-5; ISSN 1894-2601, xli + 456 pp.
No full textThe “Aidification” of National Experiences: Swedish-Supported Correspondence Education in Tanzania, ca 1960–1975
Get PDFThis article deals with the foundational juncture in a 60-year long (and counting) relationship between Swedish and Tanzanian adult educators. It analyses how Swedish correspondence education methods and objectives were adapted as they entered the emerging field of foreign aid. Two educational institutions in Tanzania, in which Swedish funds and personnel played a central role are studied: the Nordic-funded Co-operative Educational Centre in Moshi founded in 1964, and the Swedish-funded National Correspondence Institute in Dar es Salaam (1971–). The analysis shows how international NGOs and individual policy entrepreneurs created the initial arenas for policy transfer. It emphasises how the ideal of creating an equal partnership affected the policies that were being lent and borrowed. The article argues that the concept of aidification can be used to capture the ways in which transnational policy areas such as education were transformed in the wake of decolonisation
Review (English): Henning Hansen, Modern Reading: Swedish Book Consumption during the Late Nineteenth Century
No full textDiverse Sami Livelihoods: A Comparative Study of Livelihoods in Mountain-Reindeer Husbandry Communities in Swedish Sápmi 1860–1920
Get PDFSwedish state policy regarding the Sami from the late nineteenth century onward and studies on Sami history have tended to treat reindeer husbandry as much more important than other livelihoods practiced by Sami communities and families. By comparing livelihood diversity in southern and northern mountain-reindeer husbandry communities in Swedish Sápmi (the traditional land of the Sami people) during the period 1860–1920, this study challenges the notions of Sami as reindeer herders and mountain reindeer husbandry as a nomadic monoculture. The results shows that Sami communities and families exploited diverse natural resources, trades and means of subsistence. The study supports an understanding of historical Sami livelihoods, were reindeer husbandry as recognized as one of various Sami trades and means of subsistence, rather than as the Sami livelihood
Review (English): Lina Spjut, Att (ut)bilda ett folk: Nationell och etnisk gemenskap i Sveriges och Finlands svenskspråkiga läroböcker för folk- och grundskola åren 1866–2016
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