<p>The society of spreading useful knowledge started to sell its magazine Reading for the People (RFP) in 1834. The idea with the society was to, through the magazine that contained useful knowledge, enlighten the Swedish peasantry. RFP contained articles about agricultural and economy for example.</p><p>My goal with this essay is to investigate how the use of foreign articles in RFP changed over time. I’m also going to present a field and language categorization of the foreign articles and study the articles from Benjamin Franklin and Charles Dickens and investigate what kind of articles they wrote. My questions of researching are: What sort of articles did Benjamin Franklin and Charles Dickens contribute to RFP? How much was foreign articles used in RFP and from were did the foreign articles come? To reach my goals with this examination I’ve studied the magazine RFP nr 1 -79.</p><p>The results I have came up with are that the use of foreign articles sank considerably after 35 years and that Benjamin Franklin presented most economical articles and that Charles Dickens presented articles containing more general knowledge. I divided the articles in three different fields that follows in magnitude, non practical but enlightening, practical and religious. The most common foreign language in articles was Danish were historical articles was most common, followed by Norwegian, English, German and French articles.</p>

The society of spreading useful knowledge started to sell its magazine Reading for the People (RFP) in 1834. The idea with the society was to, through the magazine that contained useful knowledge, enlighten the Swedish peasantry. RFP contained articles about agricultural and economy for example. My goal with this essay is to investigate how the use of foreign articles in RFP changed over time. I’m also going to present a field and language categorization of the foreign articles and study the articles from Benjamin Franklin and Charles Dickens and investigate what kind of articles they wrote. My questions of researching are: What sort of articles did Benjamin Franklin and Charles Dickens contribute to RFP? How much was foreign articles used in RFP and from were did the foreign articles come? To reach my goals with this examination I’ve studied the magazine RFP nr 1 -79. The results I have came up with are that the use of foreign articles sank considerably after 35 years and that Benjamin Franklin presented most economical articles and that Charles Dickens presented articles containing more general knowledge. I divided the articles in three different fields that follows in magnitude, non practical but enlightening, practical and religious. The most common foreign language in articles was Danish were historical articles was most common, followed by Norwegian, English, German and French articles.

Tolfterna was a popular education organization that existed between 1896 and1964 and that arranged social evenings and set up a library for working women. This thesis purpose is to investigate Tolfternas&apos;s activities in 1902-1907 and hereby place Tolfterna in the education- and library history. The thesis examines the library catalog and the protocols from the social evenings and analyses them by means of the popular education ideologies of the early 1900&apos;s: Patriarchal education, civic education, self-education and the domestic/housewife ideal.The analysis shows that the organizers of Tolfterna as well as the working women who visited the social evenings had political and social interests. This places Tolfterna in a civic education context.The social evenings contained a mix of politically orientated discussions, traditional lectures and entertainment as music and reading. The library had self-education orientation, it contained mostly fiction and was run by the working women. The non-fiction section contained mainly books about issues discussed at the social evenings such as women’s and worker’s rights, the peace question etc. Tolfternas activities can be described as a mix of civic education and self-education. The domestic/housewife ideal, which was common in popular education for women, is not represented. Tolfterna was a radical organization as they wanted to liberate and support the working women. Meanwhile Tolfterna was a part of patriarchal education since the organizers did not let the working women take active part in the planning of the activities or the development of the organization. / Program: Bibliotekarie

This master’s thesis analyzes how cultural policy was problematized in three governmental policy areas; culturalpolicy for the free sector, education policy and popular education policy, during the social democrat Ragnar Edenman’s time (1957-67) as minister of ecclesiasticalaffairs. Earlier research has examined the policy for the free sector, concerning artist’s economic problems. This thesisadds an analysis of the other fields of policy, which were reformed in the 1960’s by the same ministry. The purpose is twofold: first to examine if the two fields wereproblematized as a cultural policy. The conclusion is that popular education was part of what Edenman problematizedas a “wider cultural policy”. Education policy was not included in this field of reform, but not conceptually different from it. Secondly to examine what these threepolicies had in common as a problematization. This concept is combined with the concept of governmentality into ananalysis of how wider cultural policy was defined by two technologies, aesthetic education and environment. These elements are analyzed in programs for these fields of policy, their use of behavioral sciences and ideological programs after 1946. The conclusion is that the wider problematizationduring the early part of the period was part of a governmentality held together by a psychologically defined democratic subject. When cultural policy was defined as aseparate field of policy in the 1960’s, it lost contact with this governmentality’s focus on the citizen’s ethical behavior.Instead, its purpose was to fulfill goals of the citizen’s wellbeing in society. / Program: Bibliotekarie