ABSTRACT

This edited collection sheds light on Nordic families’ strategies and methods for transferring significant cultural heritage to the next generation over centuries. Contributors explore why certain values, attitudes, knowledge, and patterns were selected while others were left behind, and show how these decisions served and secured families’ well-being and values. Covering a time span ranging from the early modern era to the end of the twentieth century, the book combines the innovative "history from below" approach with a broad variety of families and new kinds of source material to open up new perspectives on the history of education and upbringing.

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

Approaches to Changing Values of Upbringing and Education in the Nordic Societies

part I|56 pages

Raising a Family

chapter 1|17 pages

How to Raise Good Children?

Disciplinary Correction in Early Modern Advice Books

chapter 2|16 pages

When Parenting Fails

Religious Upbringing, Discipline, and Public Disapproval in Early Modern Finland

chapter 3|21 pages

The Inheritance of a Good Life

How the Ideals of the Good Life Have Been Negotiated and Transmitted Between Generations in Finland and Canada

part II|92 pages

Transferring Livelihood Values

chapter 4|23 pages

German Families and Their Family Strategies

Marriage and Education in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Provincial Towns in the Northern Baltic

chapter 6|22 pages

Culture, Context, and Family Networks

Values and Knowledge Transfers Among Eastern European Jews in the Nordic Countries, 1880–1940

chapter 7|27 pages

Parents Know Better?

The Influence of Parents on Young People’s Transitions From Compulsory Schooling to Work and Further Education in Early 1960s Helsinki

part III|61 pages

Focusing on Social Mobility

chapter 8|15 pages

Rethinking Social Mobility

The Social Background and Career of Students from the ‘Vyborg Nation’, 1833–1899

chapter 9|20 pages

A Place in the Sun?

Education as a Middle-Class Family Value in Nineteenth-Century Finland

chapter 10|24 pages

‘Gifted Girls’

The Values, Attitudes, and Experiences of the First Generation of Finnish Female Students in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

part IV|69 pages

Dealing with Tensions

chapter 11|28 pages

Transferring Political Heritage

Finnish‑American Communities and Civic Education

chapter 13|17 pages

Schooling the Muslim Family

The Danish School System, Foreign Workers, and Their Children from the 1970s to the Early 1990s