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The Education Systems of Europe

Part of the book series: Global Education Systems ((GES))

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Sweden can look back on a long period of peaceful development that has strongly determined the country’s economic and educational development. Sweden’s empire once covered a large part of the Baltic region. Education in this area enjoyed considerable attention. Toward the end of the 30-year war, for example, Johann Amos Comenius was called to Sweden to assist the establishment of the school system. The period that followed was characterized by territorial loss. The loss of Finland (1809) and Norway (1905) had to be dealt with both socially and culturally. Sweden was not involved in the two world wars.

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  1. Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway

    Tobias Werler

  2. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Silwa Claesson & Ola Strandler

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  1. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Wolfgang Hörner

  2. University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

    Hans Döbert

  3. Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany

    Lutz R. Reuter

  4. German Institute for Pedagogical Research, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Botho von Kopp

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Werler, T., Claesson, S., Strandler, O. (2015). Sweden. In: Hörner, W., Döbert, H., Reuter, L., von Kopp, B. (eds) The Education Systems of Europe. Global Education Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07473-3_46

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