Nordic Childhoods 1700�1960: From Folk Beliefs to Pippi Longstocking

Author:   Reidar Aasgaard ,  Marcia Bunge ,  Merethe Roos
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367886271


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Reidar Aasgaard ,  Marcia Bunge ,  Merethe Roos
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.557kg
ISBN:  

9780367886271


ISBN 10:   0367886278
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"1. Introduction Reidar Aasgaard and Marcia J. Bunge Part 1. Spheres of life: home, church, and society 2. The child in Norwegian and Scandinavian folk beliefs Ørnulf Hodne 3. The household code: Protestant upbringing in Denmark-Norway from the Reformation to the Enlightenment Ingrid Markussen 4. ""Let the little children come to me"": representations of children in the confessional culture of Lutheran Norway (seventeenth-nineteenth centuries) Kristin B. Aavitsland 5. Education of children in rural Finland: the roles of homes, churches, and manor houses Anu Lahtinen 6. Children’s rights and duties: snapshots into the history of education and child protection in Denmark (ca. 1700–1900) Anette Faye Jacobsen Part 2. Children’s development: formation, education, and work 7. ""A plain and cheerful, active life on earth"": children, education, and faith in the works of N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783–1872, Denmark) Marcia J. Bunge 8. ""Educating poor, rich, and dangerous children"": the birth of a segregated school system in nineteenth-century Sweden Bengt Sandin 9. The child in the early nineteenth century Norwegian school system Thor Inge Rørvik 10. Negotiating family, education, and labour: working-class children in Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Pirjo Markkola 11. Sheep, fish, and school: conflicting arenas of childhood in the lives of Icelandic children, 1900–1970 Ólöf Garðarsdóttir 12. Educational policy and boarding schools for indigenous Sami students in Norway from 1700 to the present day Hansen, Ketil Lenert 13. Children and their stories of World War II: a study of essays by Norwegian school children from 1946 Ellen Schrumpf 14. ""In song we meet on common ground"": conceptions of children in songbooks for Norwegian schools (1914–1"

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"""Nordic Childhoods 1700–1960: From Folk Beliefs to Pippi Longstocking is a rich and varied volume that seeks to unite insights from childhood studies and Nordic studies and make these accessible to an English-speaking audience....The book is an interesting, well-written, and sound contribution to the history of childhood."" -Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus University"


Nordic Childhoods 1700-1960: From Folk Beliefs to Pippi Longstocking is a rich and varied volume that seeks to unite insights from childhood studies and Nordic studies and make these accessible to an English-speaking audience....The book is an interesting, well-written, and sound contribution to the history of childhood. -Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus University


Author Information

Reidar Aasgaard is Professor of History of Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway. Marcia Bunge is Professor of Religion and Bernhardson Distinguished Chair at Gustavus Adolphus College, USA Merethe Roos is Associate Professor of Education at Telemark University College, Norway.

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