Stockholm university

Research project Trust and resistance: Swedish parents' relationship to school 1861-2012

The purpose of the project is to describe the role that parents have played in the formation of the Swedish school and to investigate parents' trust in the school as an institution and how this has changed over time.

Klassrum 1950-tal
Foto: Lars Johansson

Through archival studies of different types of source material, we will be able to follow how parents' relationship with the school has changed from the 1860s until 2012. In the study, we want to answer the following questions:

  • Which school issues have parents been involved in?
  • How have parents been organized?
  • In what contexts, and how, have they expressed their views on school
  • Which conflicts have existed between parents and schools?

 

Project title: Trust and resistance: Swedish parents' relationship to school 1861-2012 from an educational history perspective.

Project members

Project managers

Sara Backman Prytz

Associate professor

Department of Education, Uppsala University

Members

Joakim Landahl

Professor

Department of Education
Joakim Landahl

Germund Larsson

Senior lecturer

Department of Education