The Politics of Education : : Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany / / Marjorie Lamberti.

• VerfasserIn: Lamberti, Marjorie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs in German History ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Although the early history of progressive education is often associated with John Dewey in America, the author argues convincingly that the pedagogues in the elementary schools in the big cities of Imperial Germany were in the avant garde of this movement on the European Continent. Far more than a h...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1 THE AVANT-GARDE OF THE SCHOOL REFORM MOVEMENT IN IMPERIAL GERMANY
• Chapter 2 THE NOVEMBER REVOLUTION AND THE OPENING OF A NEW ERA FOR SCHOOL REFORMS
• Chapter 3 PEDAGOGUES AND PASTORS IN THE POLITICAL CONFLICTS OVER THE SCHOOL
• Chapter 4 EDUCATIONAL REFORMERS AND THE MODERN SCHOOL IN THE REPUBLICAN STATE
• Chapter 5 THE CULTURE WARS OVER THE SCHOOLS IN THE WEIMAR ERA
• Chapter 6 SCHOOLTEACHERS AND THE NAZI MOVEMENT DURING THE CRISIS OF THE REPUBLIC
• CONCLUSION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX