スウェーデン成人教育政策の史的展開 : 民主運動との関わりに着目して(IV 投稿論文・教育政策フォーラム)

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This paper aims to analyze the process whereby a partnership was formed between the government and private sector organizations, which led the popular movements in Sweden from the end of the 19th century onwards. In general, the popular movements aimed at the radical construction of a democratic society, and within the movements, adult education for their members constituted an important vehicle for their aims. More specifically, the ideas of the movements were propagated through educational programs, consequently popular adult education as carried out by the movements was regarded as excessively political and rebellious. However, popular adult education was able to get official financial support from 1912 on. On the basis of what kind of rationale and through what kind of process was this support realized? At first, officialdom conceived of the popular adult education that spread through the medium of social democratic labor movements as a source of rebellion against the dominant group in society. However, its characteristics underwent a gradual change after the development of democratization, and society as a whole gradually came to recognize its significance. The most important elements in the process of recognition were the formation of "study circles" that were able to adapt to the varied and fluid interests on the part of learners, and the relationship between government and the popular movements that was built up within a framework that allowed democratized associations to flourish.