Ulla Aatsinki is a researcher at the University of Tampere.Johanna Annola is a research fellow at the Centre of Excellence in History of Experiences, University of Tampere.Mervi Kaarninen is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Tampere.

• Introduction: Approaches to Changing Values of Upbringing and Education in the Nordic Societies Part I: Raising a Family 1. How to Raise Good Children?: Disciplinary Correction in Early Modern Advice Books 2. When Parenting Fails: Religious Upbringing, Discipline, and Public Disapproval in Early Modern Finland 3. The Inheritance of a Good Life: How the Ideals of the Good Life Have Been Negotiated and Transmitted Between Generations in Finland and Canada Part II: Transferring Livelihood Values 4. German Families and Their Family Strategies: Marriage and Education in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Provincial Towns in the Northern Baltic 5. Knowledge Transfer Within Artisan Families in Early Nineteenth-Century Rural Finland 6. Culture, Context, and Family Networks: Values and Knowledge Transfers Among Eastern European Jews in the Nordic Countries, 1880–1940 7. Parents Know Better?: The Influence of Parents on Young People’s Transitions From Compulsory Schooling To Work And Further Education in Early 1960s Helsinki Part III: Focusing on Social Mobility 8. Rethinking Social Mobility: The Social Background and Career of Students from the "Vyborg Nation", 1833–1899 9. A Place in the Sun?: Education as a Middle-Class Family Value in Nineteenth-Century Finland 10. "Gifted Girls": The Values, Attitudes, and Experiences of the First Generation of Finnish Female Students in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Part IV: Dealing with Tensions 11. Transferring Political Heritage: Finnish-American Communities and Civic Education 12. Sami Schoolchildren and the Transfer of Knowledge and Culture in the Twentieth Century 13. Schooling the Muslim Family: The Danish School System, Foreign Workers, and Their Children from the 1970s to the Early 1990s