This thesis studied how educational ideals (bildningsideal) were constructed for the working class in the socialist working-class newspapers Arbetet and Social-Demokraten and compared it to the education ideals for women in the feminist working class newspaper Morgonbris within the period 1900-1930. The purpose of this thesis was to analyze how the workers’ education-ideals were constructed in the newspapers, how they were communicated and to whom they were encouraged. The contents in the newspapers were deconstructed with the use of a qualitative content analysis to decipher manifest and latent content to find constructions of educational ideals. This was then analyzed with a gender-theoretical framework to decipher the gender relations that constituted these ideals. The results showed a multitude of refinement- and education-ideals that motivated workers’ education in various ways. In general, education and refinement were encouraged to a gender-neutral working-class subject. But the results showed that workers’ education and refinement was communicated and motivated in different ways when addressing it to women versus men. Women where to educate themselves to gain strength to the working-class movement, to rationalize and discipline themselves and to rise to the level of the working-class men and take responsibility within the organization. Men were to educate themselves to develop their personal character, the individual self-esteem and to develop a stronger mind to challenge the bourgeoisie intellectually. The common cause of workers’ education was characterized by a loyalty to the working-class organizations and its members. There was a distinguishable hierarchy between men in the organization and between women and men. Apathetic men were frowned upon and there was a clear educational ideal amongst working-class men that all men had to relate themselves to. The same was true for women, however; women also stood in relation to men, where they always were portrayed as subordinate, retarded and in need of stricter guidance and supervision.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hj-61360 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Liew, David |
| Publisher | Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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