The latent structure of educational offerings—tracing topics from folk high school catalogues through large-scale content analyses

Abstract Program analysis has been developing into a prolific research tradition illustrating the utility of adult education providers and program descriptions as heuristic objects for addressing larger questions social scientific humanistic inquiry. In this tradition, attention directed to way programs educational offers reflect changing labour market, systems cultural zeitgeist . article, we interrogate opportunities deploy large-scale text on content national catalogues Swedish folk high schools (1954–2007) further enlarge analytical depth precision how can address offerings. Based an comprehensive digital repository identify latent thematic structures in over time discuss these course broader structural changes its system well regarding purpose education.