Research project Several of Sweden's ironworks ran private schools for their workers' children even before the 1842 first elementary school act. The research project examines how some of these schools were affected by the first elementary school act stating that all municipalities should offer elementary schools to the municipality's children.
Several of Sweden's ironworks ran private schools for their workers' children even before the 1842 first elementary school act. The research project examines how some of these schools were affected by the first elementary school act stating that all municipalities should offer elementary schools to the municipality's children.
Several of Sweden's ironworks ran private schools for their workers' children even before the 1842 first elementary school act. Teaching content in the schools run by ironworks included both basic knowledge as reading as well as Latin teaching and more advanced knowledge. The research project examines how some of these schools were affected by the first elementary school act stating that all municipalities should offer elementary schools to the municipality's children. What happened to the schools run by ironworks, with the educational content, the school structure when these private schools gradually transitioned to public elementary schools, which were regulated state and municipally, after 1842. The period studied is 1820–1940 and initially the focus is on the northern part of Sweden.
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