ABSTRACT
Swedish adult education can be divided into non-formal adult education (NF) and formal adult education (FA). The former includes the folk high schools (FHS), which are mostly residential colleges of either a long-term or a short-term nature, the study circle associations (SCA) and the educational work undertaken by the different popular movements. The latter includes municipal adult education (MAE) which comprises literacy classes and labour-market training. The folk high schools were centres for democratic development in the country, but they were also disseminators of the new technology and fresh methods in agriculture. There are two branches of adult education initiated in this country in the 1960s. The first was adult basic education required by a great number of immigrants from countries with high illiteracy rates. The second is Swedish for Immigrants, which was established as an experiment in 1967, as a special task for the study circle associations.
