Folkbildning and Sustainable Development
The fight against poverty and global threats to the environment are the issues of greatest concern in our times. In the work for sustainable development, decision makers, organisations and individual citizens the world over will be called to make active efforts. This material is a brief summary of the role taken by the Swedish liberal, non-formal and voluntary education system comprised of folk high schools and study associations.
Folkbildning and Sustainable Development
Folkbildningens Framsyn
- Folkbildning of the future, its role and objectives
Foreword of the English edition This document is about what role and which objectives “folkbildning” – the Swedish liberal, non-formal and voluntary education system comprised of folk high schools and study associations – shall have in the future.
The text is a result of a comprehensive process involving 117 conferences nationwide at which 7,000- 8,000 people participated. These conferences have been documented. The majority of those who participated in these conference discussions are themselves active in folk high schools and study associations. This final overall document is consequently the voice of folkbildning.
Folkbildningens Framsyn - English version
Facts on liberal adult education in Sweden 2008
Folkbildning.net
- an anthology about “folkbildning” and flexible learning (second edition)
This second edition of "folkbildning.net" about flexible learning was published in November 2003.
It is meant to be a guide to how the pedagogy of "folkbildning" has been adapted in different forms of IT-supported distance learning.
Nordic "folkbildning" is based on the democratic meeting, which differs from the distance pedagogical tradition with its base in the correspondence courses.
With the English editions we want to, spread knowledge about our work methods, create new contacts, open new exciting discussions and increase our own knowledge.
The first edition of this anthology (folkbildning.net) was published in Swedish in August 2001.
Swedish “folkbildning” has since then continued to develop its special practice of flexible learning and the second, revised edition of the anthology consists of chapters either rewritten or completely new.