Participating without attending. Compulsory schooling in change. Compulsory schooling in Sweden was introduced in 1842. However, its meaning has changed over time, both in terms of who it applies to, how long it applies and how it can or should be implemented. During the 2000s, compulsory schooling has become synonymous with the obligation to be present in school and attend class. There are stu-dents who for medical, mental and social reasons can not go to school and fulfill their school obligation. In order to ensure that these students receive the education they are entitled to, a new chapter was introduced in 2020 in the Swedish Education Act, enabling distance learning. The purpose of the article is to learn more about how the educational policy framework of school attendance and everyone’s right to education can affect the meaning of compulsory schooling, and how this discursive change can have consequences for students, schools, and society. To achieve this, government policy texts on distance education and school attendance published in 2017-2021 are analyzed. The consequences that are perceived to follow from teaching beyond the school area are also discussed here. One consequence that is highlighted is that the school’s democracy mission ends up in danger. The analysis is inspired by Carol Lee Bacchi’s approach WPR (What’s the Problem Represented to be)

All children in Sweden have the right to attend school from the year they reach the age of six. But are all children obliged to be there? Sweden have had compulsory schooling since the end of the 19th century. This means that there is an obligation to be in the school and attend its activities. A changed governance of the school during the last decades of the 20th century, from centralized to decentralized, opened up for the possibility of local school practices to define how the compulsory schooling should be interpreted and applied. In this article we scrutinize whether this has opened for potential inequalities regarding compulsory schooling in Sweden. In doing this we analyze law and policy documents that in different ways prescribe how deviations from school duties, so-called school absence, should be handled and by whom. The purpose of the article is to elucidate the effects of state-formulated guidelines regarding the management of school absence in Swedish compulsory school. Inspired by Carol Lee Bacchis’ WPR (What´s the Problem Represented to be) analysis, we interrogate how departures from compulsory schooling are portrayed as a problem and what meaning are ascribed to compulsory schooling - not least from an equality perspective.

I en vanlig svensk livsmedelsbutik finns tusentals olika varor. De allra flesta är förpackade, klädda i färger, bilder, symboler och tjusiga varunamn som vi möter när vi ska hitta rätt mjölk, lämplig middagsmat och en god frukostmarmelad. I frukt- och delikatessdiskarna kan man se och kanske vidröra själva varan, annars är det förpackningarnas beskriv ningar av maten som vi köper. Den här boken handlar om hur förpackningarna omgestaltat våra konsumtionskulturer. Hur de förändrade produktionen, distributionen och konsumenternas vardag och villkor i butiken. Handeln rationali serades och alla de problem som hade att göra med hållbarhet, för varing och långa transporter kunde lösas. Från betjäningsbutiker med försäljning över disk gick vi till snabbköp där kunden på egen hand plockar sina varor. I det nya masskonsumtionssamhället ökade också antalet varianter av en och samma vara och varumärket blev det som tydligast skiljde dem åt. Boken berättar också om hur förpackningarna intagit en viktig plats i våra vardagliga visuella miljöer. Inte bara i butikerna utan också på annonspelare, tidningssidor, i köksskåpen och på frukostborden. Den förpackade maten ger oss möjlighet att välja stil, värderingar och kanske rent av identitet. En burk varmkorv eller ett paket rättvisemärkt kaffe i varukorgen berättar olika saker om oss. Förpack ningarnas bilder på den färdiga maten visar hur trevligt vi kan få det vid middagsbordet men talar sällan om för oss vad vi egentligen äter. Bakom arbetet med boken ligger ett fl erårigt samarbete mellan Nordiska museet och Linköpings universitet.

Hur kan man använda och studera bilder i kultur- och samhällsvetenskapliga sammanhang?I denna bok ges en bred introduktion till dem som vill söka ny kunskap i nya källmaterial. Författarna ger exempel på hur reklamfotografier eller veckopressbilder kan användas i studier av sociala roller, etnicitet och genus, av normalitet och avvikande eller idealbilder av vardagen och människan. De argumenterar för att bredda synfältet och söka kunskap i visuella material - och visar även hur det kan göras. Bilder omger oss alla

In the end of the1940's Occupational Medicine was institutionalised in Sweden. Health hazilards in the work place was not a new field for the Swedish physicians. They had been preocrcupied with these problems for a long time.

The aim of this thesis is to analyse and describe how health hazards in the work placees, ecpecially in the factories, were perceived and described by Swedish physicians at the turn of the 20t century. The aim is also to clarify the physicians' role m shaping, developing and supervising the Occupational Safety and Health Acts. The city of Norrköping is used as anexample in discussing how physicians at a local level paid attention to health and safety issues in the work place.

According to the physicians, there were a number of harmful factors in the factory work that could endanger health, but these were also seen to be dependent on the worker. Workers ldisplayed different kinds of vulnerability to the harmful factors. Sex, heredity, age, health, physique, habits and behaviour were understood as determining components. The preventive measures not only contained guidelines for the factories. They also included advises on how '!the workers should organise and live their lives outside work.

The life style and behaviour the physicians would like to encourage were aligned with the !cultural values of the bourgeoisie at the tum of the 20th century. It is vital to recognise the cultural lens through which the physicians perceived and spoke of the workers' situation, their way of life and their behaviour inside as well as outside the factory.