New Perspectives on German-American Educational History - Topics, Trends, Fields of Research

Jürgen OverhoffAnne Overbeck(eds.)New Perspectives onGerman-AmericanEducational History

Impressum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgemnts

Jürgen OverhoffNew Perspectives on German-American EducationalHistory: An Introduction

Patrick M. Erben“To Direct / My Loving Countrymans Defect”:Translingual Education in German-SpeakingPennsylvania, 1683–1760

Bethany WigginPoor Christoph’s Almanac:Popular Media and Imperial Education in ColonialPennsylvania

Heike BungertGerman Americans and their Efforts to Bring ‘Cultur’to the United States, 1848–1914

German-American Festivals and their Emphasis on Culture

Celebrating German and German-American “Culture Heroes”

Conclusion

Frank TrommlerNegotiating German “Kultur” and “Wissenschaft” inAmerican Intellectual Life, 1870–1918

1 Germany: From the Stalwart of Culture to the Epitome ofBarbarism

2 The German University as a Model – An American Projection

3 The “Passion for Culture” and the Challenges of Specialization

4 German Kultur as a Target of American Nationalism

5 Situating the Story in its Historical Context

Charlotte A. LergUses and Abuses of the First German-AmericanProfessorial Exchange, 1905–1914

Academic Relations and Cultural Diplomacy

Setting up Contact

The First World War

Anne OverbeckBetween Goethe and Washington:German-American Life in Indianapolis in the EarlyTwentieth Century

“Wahrt deutsches Wesen”– The Decline of German-American Culture before World War I

Niebuhr, Kallen and the American Melting Pot – Renegotiating German-American Identity from 1914–1917

“Their Allegiance Firm without Crack” –German-American Culture under Attack, 1917–1919

German-American Culture after the End of the War

Simon RichterGoethe Goes to Yale: William James, Carl Jung,William Speck, Alice Raphael and the Pursuit ofPersonality, 1917–1932

Ewald Terhart“Research on Teaching” in the USA and “Didaktik” in(West-) Germany: Influences since 1945

1 Re-education and Reconstruction

2 1960s: The times they are a-changing

3 The Golden Era of reform: from the 1960s to the 1970s

4 The New Century: Globalization of Educational Discourse

Johannes BellmannThe Reception of Dewey in Germany after PISA:On the Language of Progressivism and itsAdaptability

Introduction

Educational Theory, Research, and Policy

Concluding Remarks

Hartmut LehmannThe Quincentennial Commemoration of theProtestant Reformation on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Selected Bibliography

Index of names

Index of places

Table of figures

Contributors

Cover