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The Politics of Progressive Education. Odenwaldschule in Nazi Germany.
Dennis Shirley
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Description for The Politics of Progressive Education. Odenwaldschule in Nazi Germany.
Hardcover. A chronicle of the collision between educational reformer Paul Geheeb, who founded the Odenwaldschule, and fascist ideology during Hitler's rise to power. By examining one individual's story it shows how education in general, and progressive education in particular, fared in Nazi Germany. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 map, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
In March 1933, Nazi storm troopers seized control of the Odenwaldschule, a small German boarding school near Heidelberg. Founded in 1910 by educational reformer Paul Geheeb, the Odenwaldschule was a crown jewel of the progressive education movement, renowned for its emancipatory pedagogical innovations and sweeping curricular reforms. In the tumultuous year that followed that fateful spring, Geheeb moved from an initial effort to accommodate Nazi reforms to an active opposition to the Third Reich’s transformation of the school. Convinced at last that humanistic education was all but impossible under the new regime, he emigrated to Switzerland in March 1934. There ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674687592
SKU
V9780674687592
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About Dennis Shirley
Dennis Shirley was a teacher at the Ecole d'Humanité and is currently Assistant Professor of Education at Rice University.
Reviews for The Politics of Progressive Education. Odenwaldschule in Nazi Germany.
Shirley’s is a very interesting book of high originality. Located in the interface between history of education, political science, educational theory, and comparative education, it is a fascinating account of the confrontations, compromises, and final breakdown of educational liberalism under the attack from both an authoritarian ideology and the build up of totalitarian state power. For the expert it affords ... Read more