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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
Introduction
part I|56 pages
Raising a Family
chapter 2|16 pages
When Parenting Fails
chapter 3|21 pages
The Inheritance of a Good Life
part II|92 pages
Transferring Livelihood Values
chapter 4|23 pages
German Families and Their Family Strategies
chapter 6|22 pages
Culture, Context, and Family Networks
chapter 7|27 pages
Parents Know Better?
part III|61 pages
Focusing on Social Mobility
chapter 8|15 pages
Rethinking Social Mobility
chapter 9|20 pages
A Place in the Sun?
chapter 10|24 pages
‘Gifted Girls’
part IV|69 pages
Dealing with Tensions