Ädelfors Folkhögskola (Ädelfors folk high school) is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

folk high school Folk high schools (also ''Adult Education Center'', Danish: ''Folkehøjskole;'' Dutch: ''Volkshogeschool;'' Finnish: ''kansanopisto'' and ''työväenopisto'' or ''kansalaisopisto;'' German: ''Volkshochschule'' and (a few) ''Heimvolkshochschule;'' ...

which is specialized in teaching disabled people and people with

special needs In clinical diagnostic and functional development, special needs (or additional needs) refers to individuals who require assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological. Guidelines for clinical diagnosis are given in ...

. The school is located in

Holsbybrunn Holsbybrunn is a locality situated in Vetlanda Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 729 inhabitants in 2010. Ädelfors folkhögskola is located in Holsbybrunn. An international English speaking Bible School affiliated with Torchbearers ...

Vetlanda Vetlanda () is a locality and the seat of Vetlanda Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 13,050 inhabitants in 2010. History Vetlanda was still nothing more than a village for several centuries. With the 1840s population boom in Småland ...

. It offers courses in a variety of subjects, and its students come from all over the country.

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Ädelfors folk high school is run by the Workers organisation of southern Sweden; with about 300 students it is one of biggest folk high schools in Sweden. The school was built in 1957 in the town of Ädelfors in Vetlanda and was moved to the small village of Holsbybrunn in 1972. The students live at the school during the week in dormitories, and often go home over the weekends. The dorms can accommodate about 100 students and include apartments adjusted for disabled people.

Studies

Most courses at Ädelfors aim at training students for a tertiary education. These courses include the English language, natural sciences, and

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

. The students studying

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (profes ...

have practical experience with the local web-newspapers and reporting the school news and event using the school's radio and video equipment. The art classes are accessible to persons with neuropsychiatric disabilities who would like to learn painting and sculpture. For those who wants to become a personal assistant, to which Swedish persons with severe handicaps are entitled as a right, there is a class. Ädelfors also has a variety of weekend-courses and summer courses such as "Human rights in an open society". A Russian-language course meets initially at the folkhögskola and then at the Russian city of Cheboksary.

External links

School's official site

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adelfors Folkhogskola Folk high schools in Sweden Special education schools in Sweden Educational institutions established in 1957 1957 establishments in Sweden

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