The school for life
Subtitle: N.F.S. Grundtvig on education for the people
By: Edward Broadbridge, translator and editor, Clay Warren, editor, Uffe Jonas, editor ; [with] opening essay [by] Ove Korsgaard ; text introductions: Uffe Jonas ; concluding essay: Clay Warren
Contributors: Broadbridge, Edward; Jonas, Uffe; Warren, Clay, 1946-; Korsgaard, Ove, 1942-
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Aarhus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9788771240023
Subjects: Adult education; Philosophy; Education; Folk high schools
Work titles: Selections
Description: "N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) produced a major body of work in the fields of theology, education, literature, politics, and history.  He was also a poet, a hymn-writer, and a translator.  In particular, however, it is his educational writings that over the years have attracted international attention-from the USA in the west to Japan in the east.  In recognition of his influence the European Union called its adult education project 'the Grudtvig programme'.  As part of its agenda to digitalise and translate some of this vast output, the Grundtvig Study Centre at the University of Aarhus is pleased to publish this broad selection of Grundtvig;s writings on education in a completely new translation.  The texts vary in form from poems and songs to articles in periodicals, introductions to books, an open letter to the Norwegians and a private letter to the King of Denmark.  These texts, taken together, will provide a solid basis for international scholars without knowledge of Danish to be able to work closely with Grundtvig's ideas on education for the people."--P [4] of cover.
Notes: Accompanying CD-ROM contains recording of source-texts, essays, and introductions read by Edward Broadbridge and Clay Warren ; with a musical excerpt from 'That's how the light gets in', composed and played by Lisbeth Iversen.

Includes bibliographical references.

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: MP3 player.
Table of contents: title: Grundtvig 's philosophy of enlightenment and education / Ove Korsgaard; title: The university in London and the Academy at Sorø (1827-28); title: Nordic mythology; title: Education for the state (1834); title: Education for the state (1834); title: Is faith truly a school matter (1836); title: The Danish four-leaf clover or a partiality for Danishness (1836); title: A Roman song; title: To the Norwegians concerning a Norwegian High School (1837); title: The school of life and the Academy in Sorø (1839); title: On the union of learning in the North (1839); title: Enlightenment (1839); title: Open letter to my children (1839); title: Appeal for, and concept of, a Danish High School in Sorø (1840); title: Free school song (1841); title: On the establishment of Sorø Academy as a people's high school (1843); title: A congratulation to Denmark on the Danish Dimwit and the Danish High School (1847); title: Response from Grundtvig to "On His High School and the 'Danish Society'" (1854); title: The international reception of N.F.S. Grundtvig's educational ideas / Clay Warren.