@article{1358320,
      author = {Westberg, Johannes,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1358320},
      title = {Funding the Rise of Mass Schooling : the Social, Economic  and Cultural History of School Finance in Sweden, 1840-1900  /},
      abstract = {' ... Provides a fascinating window into the meaning and  importance of schools as community institutions in a  transforming economy ... brings a new perspective to  understanding the expansion of mass schooling  internationally, and helps us appreciate the creativity and  calculation of ordinary families ... insightful, smart, and  humane. ' -Nancy Beadie, Historian of Education and  Professor, University of Washington, USA ' ... a remarkably  interesting book about the social and cultural  entanglements of school finance in 19th century Sweden.  Westberg presents a compelling argument for the economic  basis of the rise of primary schools, restoring the  complexity of educational finance as a social and cultural  dimension beyond reductionist approaches. His informed,  inspirational and persuasive analysis documents the efforts  related to the funding of mass schooling as it emerged; one  wonders how we could make comprehensive arguments about the  social dynamics of mass schooling in the 19th century  before this book.' -Marcelo Caruso, Professor in History of  Education, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany This book  explores how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was  funded during the 19th century. Based on rich source  materials from rural Swedish school districts, and drawing  on evidence from schooling in France, Germany, England and  the U.S., Westberg examines the moral considerations that  guided economic practices and sheds new light on how the  advent of schooling rested not only on monies, but also  grains, firewood and cow fodder, showing how schooling was  neither primarily guided by frugal impulses nor motivated  by a fear of the growing working classes. This book also  broadens the theoretical horizon of history of education  into social, agrarian and economic history in a wider  context. Focussing on different systems of school finance,  this work reveals a key change over time: from a largely  in-kind system supporting schools in an early phase,  followed by an increasingly monetarized, depersonalized and  homogenized system of school finance. This will be a  welcome contribution of interest to scholars in the fields  of education history, sociology, and economics.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40460-8},
      recid = {1358320},
      pages = {1 online resource (XVII, 242 pages 13 illustrations, 1  illustration in color.) :},
}