Diligent and Docile Workers: Descriptions of the Working Poor and the Social Order in the "Läsebok för folkskolan," 1868-1920s

Autor/inn/en	Berg, Anne; Larsson, Esbjörn
Titel	Diligent and Docile Workers: Descriptions of the Working Poor and the Social Order in the "Läsebok för folkskolan," 1868-1920s
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 59 (2023) 1, S.19-35 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Berg, Anne) ORCID (Larsson, Esbjörn)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
DOI	10.1080/00309230.2022.2095650
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Low Income Groups; Poverty; Social Behavior; Social Class; Social Differences; Stereotypes; Reading Materials; Political Influences; Educational History; Nationalism; Elementary Education; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Armut; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Sozialer Unterschied; Klischee; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Nationalismus; Elementarunterricht; Schweden
Abstract	The educational system in nineteenth-century Sweden was, as in many other industrialising states, segregated by social class. Children of the economically and politically marginalised classes were educated in basic primary subjects in the nationwide "Folkskola" (primary schools). From 1868 to the early 1940s, the government issued, subsidised, and distributed the "Läsebok för folkskolan" (Reader for Primary School; "the Reader"). Besides poems and songs, the Reader contained religious, fictitious, moral, and historical texts -- all wrapped in an explicit nationalist discourse. However, it also contained images and ideologies about social class which have remained unexplored. The representations and social vernaculars in the Reader about how children of the working poor should identify and conduct themselves in order to grow up as functional members of a bourgeois society have been more or less overlooked. This paper deals with the images of the poor and marginalised in the Reader. We suggest not only that the Swedish state reproduced a class-based society through a segmented school system, but that the social descriptions in the book were aimed to produce diligent and docile workers to serve the political and economic interests of the dominant classes. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01