David Phillips

Investigating Education in Germany

Historical studies from a British perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the work of established researcher Professor David Phillips, in one authoritative volume. Including key chapters on education in Germany from the last three decades, topics range from historical studies of universities and schools, to detailed research on the role of the British in reconstructing education in Germany after 1945, and education in post-unification Germany. Together, the body of work draws from a multitude of primary sources and constitutes a comprehensive analysis of educational provision in Germany over a long historical period. In addition to 16 chapters spanning Phillips' research from 1981 to 2012, the book includes a new introduction, bringing his ideas together and demonstrating their continuing relevance to the field. Investigating Education in Germany will be invaluable reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of international and comparative education, German studies, history of education and sociology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781138854215
• ISBN-10: 1138854212
• Artikelnr.: 42456629

Autorenporträt

David Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Education in Germany and comparative studies. Part 1:
Comparing Germany The German Universities: Citadels of Freedom or Bastions
of Rection?. Beyond Travellers' Tales: Some Nineteenth-Century British
Commentators on Education in Germany Part 2: Occupied Germany British
Educational Policy in Occupied Germany: Some Problems and Paradoxes in the
Control of Schools and Universities. The Re-opening of Universities in the
British Zone: The Problem of Nationalism and Student Admissions. War-time
Planning for the "Re-education" of Germany: Professor E.R. Dodds and the
German Universities. Lindsay and the German Universities: An Oxford
Contribution to the Post-war Reform Debate. British University Officers in
Germany after the War. Helena Deneke and the Women of Germany: A Note on
Post-War Reconstruction. Part 3: Lessons from Germany? Learning from
Elsewhere in Education: Some Perennial Problems Revisited with Reference to
British Interest in Germany. Lessons from Germany? The Case of German
Secondary Schools. Learning from the German Model Part 4: Post-Unification
Germany Educational Developments in the New Germany. The Wissenschaftsrat
and the Investigation of Teacher Education in the Former German Democratic
Republic, 1991: A Personal Account. Reconstructing Education in Germany:
Some Similarities and Contrasts in the Post-War and Post-Unification
Rethinking in Educational Provision.