Cover -- Preface -- Table of Content -- I. Introduction: Taking Pupils into Account in Educational History Research (Anna Larsson and Björn Norlin) -- Aim and Ambition -- The Extracurricular Life and Socialization of Schoolchildren: Overview of a Fragmented Field -- The Study of Contemporary Contexts -- Historical Research -- Sources and Perspectives -- Contents -- II. 'It is Better to Learn than to be Taught': Pupil Culture and Socialization in The Hazelwood Magazine in the 1820s (Sian Roberts) -- The Hazelwood System: A Useful Education -- The Hazelwood Magazine: Performing Citizenship -- Authorship, Audience and Circulation -- Conclusion -- III. Karlberg as a Total Institution: The Royal Swedish War Academy in the 1800s (Esbjörn Larsson) -- Erving Goffman's Asylums -- The Concept of "Total Institution" -- Characteristics of Total Institutions -- Use of the Concept in Social Science and the Humanities -- Boarding Schools as Total Institutions -- Criticisms and Revisions -- Purpose of this Study -- Karlberg as a total institution -- The Royal Swedish War Academy as a Closed World -- Enrolment and the Mortification of the Cadet's Self -- Adaptation Strategies and Secondary Adjustments at Karlberg Palace -- The Staff World: Teachers and Officers -- Conclusion -- IV. The Nordic Secondary School Youth Movement: Pupil Exchange in the Era of Educational Modernization, 1870-1914 (Björn Norlin) -- The Swedish State Grammar School: Keystone in an Emerging Educational Society -- The Amalgamation of School Youth: Three Organizational Phases -- Town, Region, Nation, and the Nordic as Organizing Principles -- New Media, New Solidarities, New Youth -- A Social Movement: Promoting an Alternate Way of Life -- Class and Gender: The Bonds and Boundaries of School Youth Organization -- Discovering School Life: New Content in the Institutional Sphere.

The Decline of the Nordic Secondary School Youth Movement -- Concluding Remarks: Pupil Exchange and Educational Modernization -- V. School Culture at Fons Vitae: Capturing Pupil Experiences in a Dutch Catholic Girls School, 1914-40 (Marieke Smit) -- Introduction -- Historiographic Reflections -- The Pupil's Perspective in the School Archives -- Former Pupils Tell the Story -- Anne Biegel's Diary -- Some Final Remarks -- VI. Remembering School: Autobiographical Depictions of Daily School Life in Sweden, 1918-80 (Anna Larsson) -- School as Memory Site -- The Importance of Affiliation -- Attributes and Concealment -- Characteristics and Harassment -- Exclusion and Friendship -- School as Theater -- Mastering Peer Life through Wit and Violence -- Peer Solidarity and Associations -- Memory, Narrative and Emotional Communities -- VII. Simulating Society: The Norra Latin Summer Residence in Stockholm, 1938-65 (Joakim Landahl) -- Background: The Idea of Self-Government -- Work -- Punishment -- Play -- Girls -- Nightlife -- Simulating Society -- Conclusion -- VIII. Between Identity and Stigmatization: The Socialization of East Berlin Pupils in the 1950s (Emmanuel Droit) -- New Schooling Conditions for Pupils of East Berlin in the 1950s -- A Socio-Historical Perspective on the Actors -- The Creation of New Structures -- A New Spatial and Temporal Environment -- Disciplining a Spontaneous Experience of Politicization: Pupil Parliaments -- The Minority: Between Identity Affirmation and Political Stigmatization -- Conclusion -- IX. Material and Affective Movements: Danish Pupils' Reminiscences, 1945-2008 (Lisa Rosén Rasmussen) -- Exploring the History of Everyday School Life -- Conceptualizing the Material and Affective Movements of School Life -- The 1950s: Lining Up Within the Walls of the Yellow Prison.

School Memories of the 1970s: Hanging Out in Little Christiania -- School Memories of the 1990s: Playing Soccer in 'the Class of Trouble' -- Crossing the Threshold into Everyday School Life -- References -- The Authors.