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Swedish folk high school database

SND-ID: 2022-128

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Erik Nylander - Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning orcid

Description

The Swedish folk high school database collects the catalogs of folk high schools between the years 1952-2019. The catalogs contain descriptions of the folk high school as a form of education as well as details of the courses offered by the schools. It is possible to search for subjects, words or phrases and also download the catalogs. The database is a valuable resource for, among others, researchers, folk high school teachers and principals.

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Linköping University

Identifiers

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

Yes

Type of personal data

Names of persons

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Folk high school catalogues

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Time period(s) investigated

1952 – 2019

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

EDUCATION (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Educational Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

adult education institutions, folk high school

Publications

Access to data via

Dataset
Swedish folk high school database

Citation

Folkhögskoledatabasen, Linköping University Electronic Press, https://doi.org/10.3384/db.fhdb

Data format / data structure

Text

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Erik Nylander - Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning orcid

Keywords

adult education institutions, folk high school

Time period(s) investigated

1952 – 2019

Published: 2022-08-17