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Learning Democracy - Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965 (Hardcover)
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Learning Democracy - Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965 (Hardcover)
Series: Monographs in German History
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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.
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