Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Approaches to Changing Values of Upbringing and Education in the Nordic Societies

ULLA AATSINKI, JOHANNA ANNOLA, AND MERVI KAARNINEN

PART I Raising a Family

1 How to Raise Good Children? Disciplinary Correction in Early Modern Advice Books

SATU LIDMAN

2 When Parenting Fails: Religious Upbringing, Discipline, and Public Disapproval in Early Modern Finland

RAISA MARIA TOIVO

3 The Inheritance of a Good Life: How the Ideals of the Good Life Have Been Negotiated and Transmitted Between Generations in Finland and Canada

ANTTI HÄKKINEN

PART II Transferring Livelihood Values

4 German Families and Their Family Strategies: Marriage and Education in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Provincial Towns in the Northern Baltic

ULLA IJÄS

5 Knowledge Transfer Within Artisan Families in Early Nineteenth-Century Rural Finland

MERJA UOTILA

6 Culture, Context, and Family Networks: Values and Knowledge Transfers Among Eastern European Jews in the Nordic Countries, 1880–1940

VIBEKE KIEDING BANIK AND LAURA EKHOLM

7 Parents Know Better? The Influence of Parents on Young People’s Transitions From Compulsory Schooling to Work and Further Education in Early 1960s Helsinki

SINIKKA SELIN

PART III Focusing on Social Mobility

8 Rethinking Social Mobility: The Social Background and Career of Students from the ‘Vyborg Nation’, 1833–1899

OLLI MATIKAINEN

9 A Place in the Sun? Education as a Middle-Class Family Value in Nineteenth-Century Finland

JOHANNA ANNOLA

10 ‘Gifted Girls’: The Values, Attitudes, and Experiences of the First Generation of Finnish Female Students in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

MERVI KAARNINEN

PART IV Dealing with Tensions

11 Transferring Political Heritage: Finnish-American Communities and Civic Education

ULLA AATSINKI

12 Sami Schoolchildren and the Transfer of Knowledge and Culture in the Twentieth Century

ASTRI ANDRESEN

13 Schooling the Muslim Family: The Danish School System, Foreign Workers, and Their Children from the 1970s to the Early 1990s

METTE BUCHARDT

List of Contributors

Index

Figures

7.1 The selective school system in Finland in 1960

7.2 The number of first-grade lower secondary school pupils and eleven-year-olds in Helsinki, 1950–1970 (HT 1956b, 1963b, 1971, 1973, 1954 and other equivalent tables in the statistical yearbooks of Helsinki)

8.1 Vyborg Nation students (1833–1899, n = 918): occupation

Tables

3.1 Number of the informants in Finland and Canada by generation and sex

3.2 Values of the ‘good life’ according to each of the three generations

5.1 Artisans’ families with children in Hollola, 1780–1820

5.2 The career patterns of rural artisans’ sons (born 1780–1820) in Hollola (percentage)

5.3 The spouses of artisans’ daughters (born 1780–1820) in Hollola (percentage)

5.4 Artisans’ daughters’ (born 1780–1820) marriage patterns in Hollola (percentage)

6.1 The first generation of Schwartzmans of Nayshtot migrating to Sweden in 1864–1865

6.2 The marriages and number of children of Markus and Sara Schwartzman’s four children

6.3 The marriages of Salomon and Dorothea Rosalia Schwartzman’s children 1883–1902

8.1 Percentage of Vyborg Nation students (1833–1899, n = 918) of particular social origins (based on father’s occupation) pursuing particular careers

10.1 Social background of the female students in terms of their fathers’ occupation

10.2 The domicile of female students, 1885–1900

10.3 Occupation of the first generation of university female students