Schooling and State Formation in Early Modern Sweden

Bengt Sandin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Thematic Studies, Unit of Child Studies, at the University of Linköping, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Swedish Educational System and its Transformation during the Seventeenth Century.- 3. Public Education and the School System in Stockholm in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century.- 4. School and Public Education in Swedish Towns in the Eighteenth Century.- 5. Public Education in Towns in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.- 6. Family and School: One Reality and Two Perspectives.- 7. Continuity and Change.