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Child Labour, Parental Neglect, School Boards, and Teacher Quality: School Inspector Reports on the Supply and Demand of Schooling in Mid-nineteenth-century Sweden
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3444-952X
2020 (English)In: Historical Studies in Education, ISSN 0843-5057, Vol. 32, no 1, p. 69-88Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

By examining the state school inspector reports of 1861-1863, which provide rich insights into the local conditions of schooling in Sweden, this article sheds further light on the wide range of factors that weakened school enrolment and attendance in nineteenth-century Sweden. In terms of parental demand, these included child labour on farms, at manors, and in industries; the transformation of the servant system among rural households; and religious practices, such as the confirmation and the beliefs of Protestant sectarian groups. On the supply side, factors that school inspectors reported included the inability of Swedish teacher seminars to examine enough teachers and the problematic behaviour of local school boards. As a result, this article provides additional input into the debate in educational history regarding the role of the state, religion, rural elites, and parents in the rise of mass schooling, while simultaneously providing further qualitative evidence to a quantitatively oriented research field in economic history on the determinants of schooling.

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En considérant avec attention les rapports des inspecteurs des écoles publiques de 1861 à 1863, lesquels fournissent un riche aperçu sur les conditions locales d’enseignement en Suède, cet article met en lumière le vaste éventail de facteurs qui ont affecté l’inscription et la fréquentation scolaires dans ce payx au dix-neuvième siècle. En ce qui avait trait à la demande parentale étaient compris le travail des enfants dans les fermes, dans les manoirs et dans les industries; la transformation du système domestique au sein des ménages ruraux et les pratiques religieuses telles que la confirmation et les croyances des groupes de confession protestante. Sur le plan de l’offre, les inspecteurs scolaires ont rapporté l’incapacité des séminaires de la formation enseignante de Suède à analyser suffisamment d’enseignantes et d’enseignants ainsi que l’attitude problématique des conseils scolaires locaux. Alors qu’il apporte son lot d’informations supplémentaires, cet article alimente le débat en histoire de l’éducation portant sur les rôles de l’État, de la religion, des élites rurales et des parents à l’aube de la scolarisation de masse. Simultanément, il fournit un certain nombre de données qualitatives à des recherches généralement quantitatives dans le domaine de l’histoire économique portant sur les déterminants de la scolarisation.

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Canadian History of Education Association , 2020. Vol. 32, no 1, p. 69-88
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-89900DOI: 10.32316/hse-rhe.v32i1.4743ISI: 000612809300005OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-89900DiVA, id: diva2:1531233
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Swedish Research Council, 2016-05230Available from: 2021-02-25 Created: 2021-02-25 Last updated: 2021-02-25Bibliographically approved

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