Learning Democracy Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965
Learning Democracy: Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965

Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democ...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Puaca, Brian (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2009]
Schriftenreihe:Monographs in German History 27
Schlagworte:
HISTORY / Europe / Germany
Education and state > Germany (West) > History
Education > Political aspects > Germany (West) > History
Educational change > Germany (West) > History
Online-Zugang:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
Volltext
Zusammenfassung:Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democracy, a member of NATO, and a close ally of the West. Had the schools really failed to contribute to this remarkable transformation of German society and political culture? This study persuasively argues that long before the protest movements of the late 1960s, the West German educational system was undergoing meaningful reform from within. Although politicians and intellectual elites paid little attention to education after 1945, administrators, teachers, and pupils initiated significant changes in schools at the local level. The work of these actors resulted in an array of democratic reforms that signaled a departure from the authoritarian and nationalistic legacies of the past. The establishment of exchange programs between the United States and West Germany, the formation of student government organizations and student newspapers, the publication of revised history and civics textbooks, the expansion of teacher training programs, and the creation of a Social Studies curriculum all contributed to the advent of a new German educational system following World War II. The subtle, incremental reforms inaugurated during the first two postwar decades prepared a new generation of young Germans for their responsibilities as citizens of a democratic state
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (236 Seiten)
ISBN:9781845459284
DOI:10.1515/9781845459284

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen

Ähnliche Einträge