The Danish Folk High Schools as the Schools for Life – the history, the present and the future by Niels Carstensen, Simon Voetmann, Kathrine Røll, Jesper Villadsen

“…<p>This article was prepared by a team of authors from the Den Frie Lærerskole (English name: The Independent Academy for Free School Teaching) in Ollerup – Danish independent institution of higher education that prepares teaching staff for free schools for children and youth and non-formal adult education, including Folk High Schools. The Academy cooperates with Kashubian Folk High School in Wieżyca for many years, therefore in the bibliography the reader will find not only the Danish and English but also Polish literature on Folk High Schools. …”
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ADULT FOLK HIGH SCHOOLS DURING THE SOVIET ERA (1917-1991) by Olga Vasilevna Gordina

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Swedish folk high schools – the idea, the present and the future from the perspective of their teacher by Anna Maria Myszka-Gustafsson

“…She does this on the background of the main directions of the changes taking place in the Swedish folk high schools.…”
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Folk High School as a Supportive Environment for Participants with High-Functioning Autism by Joel Hedegaard, Martin Hugo, Cecilia Bjursell

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From nation building to global citizenship: human rights education in the Nordic folk high schools by Johan Lövgren

“… Citizenship education played a crucial role in the 19th century transition from royal sovereignty to democracy in the Nordic region, with folk high schools (FHS) playing an important role. While established to empower the people (folk) for active participation in society, the contemporary folk high schools have reoriented from their initial national focus to emphasise global citizenship education. …”
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Rural development and the changing countries of the world : a study of Danish rural conditions and the folk high school with its relevance to the developing countries/ by 417313 Manniche, Peter

Increased Agency through Screens and Co-Creation – Literacy Practices within a Group of People with Aphasia at a Swedish Folk High School by Helena Taubner

“…This article aims to analyse characteristics of collective and authentic literacy practices within a group of people with aphasia attending an aphasia course at a Swedish folk high school. The group included 12 individuals with aphasia who were studied during a period of 3 weeks. …”
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Translanguaging practices in adult education for deaf migrants by Nora Duggan, Ingela Holmström, Krister Schönström

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Folkehøgskolen som danningsarena for elever med Downs syndrom i overgangsfasen til voksenliv by Roald Undlien, Marit Kollstad, Anne-Stine Dolva

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Reflexiv internationalisering: Utvecklingsfrågor som ett bildningsområde för en folkhögskola i takt med tiden by Sofia Österborg Wiklund

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Students’ personal desire for excitement and teachers’ autonomy support in outdoor activity: Links to passion, intrinsic motivation, and effort by Rune Waaler, Hallgeir Halvari, Knut Skjesol, Svein Olav Ulstad

Subjects: “…norwegian folk high schools…”
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Arrival to a fictional total institution by Henrik Fürst

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Language introduction as a space for the inclusion and exclusion of young asylum seekers in Sweden by Andreas Fejes, Magnus Dahlstedt

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Ett enande band bland Nordens alla samer by Johan Hansson

“… From its establishment in 1942, the Sami folk high school included crafts as an important part of its education program. …”
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A public summer school on astronomy in Denmark: experience from the course in 2002, 2003 and 2004 by H. Kjeldsen

“…During the summers of 2002, 2003 and 2004 a one-week public course on Astronomy took place at Silkeborg Folk High School in central Jutland, Denmark. The aim of the course was to offer a possibility for students to meet research scientists and discuss central scientific questions and their answers. …”
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Ageing society and the role of social media. Educational needs of aged and the role of social media in their learning by János Szigeti Tóth

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Think Piece on Green Guerrilla: Creating Sustainable Development through Sustainability Bildung by Sofiya Henrietta Angelina Olsen

“…By drawing on a 12-week anthropological fieldwork study, I explore how education for sustainable development is perceived and practised in the Danish folk high school course Green Guerrilla. Through the emic approach of sustainability Bildung I argue that the Green Guerrilla course constitutes a radical political imaginary; a space where the students learn to train their sociological imagination and reflect upon themselves and their own culture and society from an outside perspective in order to imagine how it can be structured differently. …”
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Antecedents of Teachers Fostering Effort within two different management regimes: An assessment-based accountability regime and regime without external pressure on results by Knut-Andreas Christophersen, Eyvind Elstad, Are Turmo

“…The methodology involves cross-sectional surveys from two different management systems: (1) teachers working under assessment-based accountability (N = 236) and (2) folk–high school teachers who work without tests and examinations and, thereby, without external accountability devices (N = 366). …”
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Class matters by Fergal Finnegan, Barbara Merrill

“…This is connected to the influence of radical adult education on scholarship and pedagogy in some countries such as the Workers Educational Association in the UK, the folk high school movement in Scandinavia, and popular education in Latin America which were connected to democratic and socialist working-class movements which promoted class solidarity and social transformation (albeit understood in very varied ways). …”
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Beyond Supporting Access to Land in Socio-Technical Transitions. How Polish Grassroots Initiatives Help Farmers and New Entrants in Transitioning to Sustainable Models of Agricultu... by Robert Skrzypczyński, Sylwia Dołzbłasz, Krzysztof Janc, Andrzej Raczyk

“…In order to answer that question, we perform case studies of three Polish initiatives—Agro-Perma-Lab, PermaKultura.Edu.PL and the Ecological Folk High School in Grzybów—active in promoting agroecology, permaculture and organic farming. …”
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