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Peer reviewedHickox, Mike; Lyon, E. Stina – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1998
Compares different sociological factors influencing postwar British and Swedish vocational education systems. Argues that, although Swedish vocational education aimed at creating the "new citizen" and an economic skills base, both motives were absent in post-1945 Britain. Suggests that attitudes of the two countries towards vocational…
Descriptors: Citizen Role, Citizenship Education, Comparative Education, Economic Change
Peer reviewedEnglund, Tomas – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1994
Discusses recent, Swedish, educational, restructuring trends that shift away from a view of education as a public good to view as a private good. Concludes that education should be a criterion of citizenship rights and necessary to shape the public good. (CFR)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Citizen Role, Citizenship, Civil Rights
Bron, Agnieszka, Ed.; Schemmann, Michael, Ed. – 2001
This second volume of the Bochum Studies in International Adult Education presents a variety of different perspectives on the topics of citizenship and civil society. Its goal is to give an overview of the European discourse on citizenship and civil society and on the discourse in some selected countries. Part I is comprised of the first of 14…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Citizenship
