Rural practices of solidarities in diversity in the labour movement KU Leuven
Folkbildning is a Swedish tradition of popular adult education, traced back to the late 19th century. The history of the Swedish model of popular education is tightly linked to social movements and their struggle for democracy. Folkbildning aimed to offer an alternative to formal education by educating the disadvantaged social classes. Initially, these were the sons of farmers and around the turn of the 20th century it expanded to the working ...