Learning Democracy : : Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965 / / Brian Puaca.

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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Monographs in German History ; 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1 REBUILDING EDUCATION IN A “NEW SPIRIT” The Challenges of the Immediate Postwar Period, 1945–1947
  • Chapter 2 “WE LEARNED WHAT DEMOCRACY REALLY MEANT” New Experiences Inside and Outside the Classroom, 1948–1954
  • Chapter 3 POLITICAL EDUCATION Reforms Continue Beneath the Surface, 1955–1959
  • Chapter 4 REFORM REIGNITED Ambitious Eff orts in the New Decade, 1960–1965
  • CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX