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Karlsson, Susanna; Karlsson, Tom S. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This article examines Language Policy documents within higher education institutions in Sweden. Its main focus is on how national language policies and policies for internationalization of the higher education are reinterpreted as local language policy. The analysis of ideologies surrounding the prescribed language(s) in meetings of decision…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Swedish
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Haas, Linda; Hwang, Philip – Family Relations, 1995
This study assessed how corporate culture affects men's involvement with their families. Found Swedish companies to be "father friendly," but few companies had systematically revamped their policies to support fatherhood; most men made moderate use of family-leave benefits. Implications are drawn for policymaking in Sweden and the United…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Life, Father Attitudes
Eiger, Norman – New York University Education Quarterly, 1982
Describes Sweden's massive effort to bring democracy to the workplace through programs of worker education and participation in industrial decision making. Stresses that the United States can learn much from the Swedish workplace education experience. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Employer Employee Relationship, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
Appelbaum, Eileen; Bailey, Thomas; Berg, Peter; Kalleberg, Arne L. – 2002
Until the 1970s, social norms dictated that women provided care for their families and men were employed for pay. The rapid increase in paid work for women has resulted in an untenable model of work and care in which all employees are assumed to be unencumbered with family responsibilities and women who care for their families are dismissed as…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Behavior Standards, Caregivers, Child Care