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Review: Karen E. Andreasen, Mette Buchardt, Annette Rasmussen and Christian Ydesen (eds.), Test og prøvelser: Oprindelse, udvikling, aktualitet
No full textSwedish Education Exhibitions and Aesthetic Governing at World´'s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century
Get PDFFor many historians of education, the emergence of a modern education system after the mid-nineteenth century was a national and regional process, neatly and carefully closed off within the borders of the nation. However, these accounts have often disregarded the effects of the flows of cross-border ideas and technologies, such as international comparisons, lesson-drawing, policy diffusion and travel, as well as local adaptations and translations of education policy originating elsewhere. The purpose of this article is to shed light on the relations between Swedish education and the international scene when it comes to policy and practice formation. The field of study is the international World´s Fairs of 1862–1904. Looking at what Sweden displayed, and understanding how visitors perceived it, the article raises questions concerning how exhibitions like these worked as mediators of educational ideals. The focus will be on the dissemination of aesthetic ideals, and the article will show that the World’s Fairs were platforms for an aesthetic normativity that had governing effects locally as well as globally
Review Essay: Coming to Grips with the Greenland Ice: Historical Flashbacks
No full textReview of: Cornelia Lüdecke (hsg.), Verborgene Eiswelten. Erich von Drygalskis Bericht über seine Grönlandexpeditionen 1891, 1892–1893, München: August Dreesback Verlag 2015, ISBN 9783944334387, 476 pp.; Janet Martin-Nielsen, Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination. Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2013, ISBN 9781137380791, 214 pp
Ivar Berg, Arnold Dalen & Karin Fjellhammer Seim (eds.), Runestudiar. Festskrift til Jan Ragnar Hagland, Trondheim: Akademika Forlag 2013, ISBN 9788232102150, 285 pp.
No full textSamernas folkhögskola och de samiska språken 1942–1990
Get PDFThe Sami folk high school and the Sami languages 1942–1990The Swedish Mission Society – SMS (Svenska missionssällskapet – SMS), wanted to improve the opportunities’ for Sami youth in Sweden and therefore they started a folk high school (folkhögskola) for the Sami in 1942. One of the aims of SMS was to help the Sámi to preserve and develop the Sami culture and languages. Over time Sami themes, the languages being one, became more prominent at the school. However some of the problems regarding the language teaching remained: the students wanted to learn different Sami languages, their linguistic skills varied a lot, and there was not that many students who wanted to learn Sami. Despite these problems, the teaching improved over the years and the Sami folk high school remained important for the Sami people during the researched period
Andreas Nordberg, Fornnordisk religionsforskning mellan teori och empiri. Kulten av anfäder, solen och vegetationsandar i idéhistorisk belysning
No full textReview of: Andreas Nordberg, Fornnordisk religionsforskning mellan teori och empiri. Kulten av anfäder, solen och vegetationsandar i idéhistorisk belysning, Uppsala: Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur 2013 (Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi 126), ISBN 9789187403026; ISSN 00650897, 426 pp
Jonas Harvard & Peter Stadius (eds.), Communicating the North. Media Structures and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region, Farnham: Ashgate 2013, ISBN 9781409449485, 364 S.
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