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  title info:
    title: Funding the Rise of Mass Schooling
    sub title: The Social, Economic and Cultural History of School Finance in Sweden, 1840 – 1900
  name:
    name part: Westberg, Johannes.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 242 p. 13 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: ‘…provides a fascinating window into the meaning and importance of schools as community institutions in a transforming economy… brings a new perspective to understanding the expansion of mass schooling internationally, and helps us appreciate the creativity and calculation of ordinary families… insightful, smart, and humane. ‘ -Nancy Beadie, Historian of Education and Professor, University of Washington, USA ‘… a remarkably interesting book about the social and cultural entanglements of school finance in 19th century Sweden. Westberg presents a compelling argument for the economic basis of the rise of primary schools, restoring the complexity of educational finance as a social and cultural dimension beyond reductionist approaches. His informed, inspirational and persuasive analysis documents the efforts related to the funding of mass schooling as it emerged; one wonders how we could make comprehensive arguments about the social dynamics of mass schooling in the 19th century before this book.’ -Marcelo Caruso, Professor in History of Education, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany This book explores how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was funded during the 19th century. Based on rich source materials from rural Swedish school districts, and drawing on evidence from schooling in France, Germany, England and the U.S., Westberg examines the moral considerations that guided economic practices and sheds new light on how the advent of schooling rested not only on monies, but also grains, firewood and cow fodder, showing how schooling was neither primarily guided by frugal impulses nor motivated by a fear of the growing working classes. This book also broadens the theoretical horizon of history of education into social, agrarian and economic history in a wider context. Focussing on different systems of school finance, this work reveals a key change over time: from a largely in-kind system supporting schools in an early phase, followed by an increasingly monetarized, de…
  note: by Johannes Westberg.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Finance--History
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: ducation and state
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: History of Education
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  subject:
    topic: Financial History
  subject:
    topic: Early Childhood Education
  classification: LA1-LA2396
  classification: 370.09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319404608
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40460-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 161125
    record change date: 20171111021642.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-40460-8