This article focuses on social movements as learning sites in Gramscian terms of hegemony and counter-hegemony. The author relates the emancipatorial aspects of the Swedish tradition of liberal adult education, to the early 2000s new (and older) social movements challenging for example neo-liberal and corporate globalization. Hence the article pres...
This thesis is a qualitative study of "Bryggan" ("The Bridge"), a three-year co-operation project between the public library and different associations in Vastervik. The aim of the project was to find new forms for co-operation, which could help both parts in their marketing. "Bryggan" is characterized as an action-related research project, where e...
Recent papers and bills from the Swedish Government deal with the possibilities of giving all Swedish citizens the possibility of their own creative actlvities in the cultural sector. This work is about where such actlvities shall be placed in order to make them obtainable for all. As an example of creative work this work takes computer-based mus...
The theme of this essay is the principle of free access to the Swedish Public Libraries, and its aim is to fmd out the opinion of adult visitors of such libraries as regards the introduction of fees on the borrowing of books, already existing fees such as reservation fees, charges for interlibrary loans and charges for the late return of books.The ...
The paper is a research of"The Library project", a three-year collaboration project betweenArbetarnas Bildningsforbund, Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan, Sveriges Författarförbund and public libraries at 14 places in Sweden.The goal of the project is to find new forms for collaboration between libraries, authors and organisations for adult eduacation un...
The essay deals with adult education from a local perspective more specifically that ofthe IOGT lodge Leon Garnbetta in Varberg. The material that has been used covers a limited period of time, which stretches from 1883 to 1926.This temperance lodge was founded in 1883 and is still active. The essay provides a historical survey of the temperance mo...
Prästen som folkuppfostrare. Prästens roll i norrländskt samhällsliv före folkskolans införande
Några uppsatser kring de kyrkliga texternas och de tryckta bokstävernas utbredning inom olika kyrkogrenar har tidigare utgivits i SCRIPTUM 1
Interview with Nils Nilsson from Klågerup. He had been engaged in the ABF library in Klågerup from its foundation. The interview was conducted by Leif Eriksson, student of the Swedish School of Library and Information Science in Borås, and Knut Jönsson from the library in Svedala on February 18, 1982. / Intervjun har spelats in på ett 90-min. kasse...
