The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany (Monographs in German History)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (585 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1571812997 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The past and the present" according to Jacinto Lirola. And at the end the Nazis won, to regret it. Yes, but of course the Nazi idea for public education met with much opposition and much approval from different quarters. The interesting thing is the similarity of the arguments presented at the end of the Weimar years, with today's America in favor of public education reform. Lift the veil in today's proposals and you will find the anti-liberal, anti universalist, not the religion but the ideology, model of yesteryear. Whether the Nazi child will obey and respond to the nation's leadership command the modern American child will respond,
Dana Professor of History at Middlebury College. Her publications include State, Society, and the Elementary School in Imperial Germany.. Marjorie Lamberti is Charles A
Far more than a history of ideas, this study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the culture wars over the schools in Germany in the 1920s. Going up to the Nazi seizure of power, the author's narrative sheds new light on the courageous defense of the republican state by the progressive educators in the 1930s and the relationship between the traditionalists' opposition to school reform and the attraction of certain sections of the teaching profession to the Nazi movement.. Although the early history of p
It is the only monograph on the topic in English and a must for research libraries." · History: Reviews of New Books. "This monograph has first-class credentials it is an excellent book for the specialist in search of a wealth of source material which is virtually inaccessible outside specialist libraries." · German History"This forcefully argued book furthers our understanding of the history of educational politics in the Weimar Repulic in a number of important ways." · American Histo