The German Volkshochschule - An Experiment in Democratic Adult Education under the Weimar Republic

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Vorwort der Reihenherausgeberinnen

Vorbemerkung der Herausgeberin des Bandes

Einleitung der Herausgeberin

1) Eine Exilschrift und ihre Geschichte

2) Gesichtspunkte der Edition

3) Fritz Borinski: Homo politicus

4) Was das Buch bietet

5) Borinskis Text in fachgeschichtlicher Perspektive

6) Demokratische Regeneration nach Holocaust und Totalitarismus

Introduction by the Author

Chapter I The German Volkshochschulbewegung – a Democratic and Spiritual Movement

1) In 1918/19

2) Bourgeois Society Restored

3) The Old and the New School

4) Stimuli from Abroad

5) Other Stimuli / Allied Movements

6) Founding Years

7) Boom and Crisis (1919 – 1923)

8) Stabilization

9) The Character of the Volkshochschulbewegung (Folk-High-School Movement)

Chapter II The Abendvolkshochschule (Evening Folk High-School)

1) Evening Classes or Bildungsanstalten?

2) The Organization of the Abendvolkshochschule

3) The Social Background

4) The Syllabus

5) Social Sciences at the Abendvolkshochschule

6) Arts at the Abendvolkshochschule

7) Consideration of Special Interests

8) Absence of Systematic Courses

9) School or Community Centre?

10) Gemeinschaft as Living Source and as Escape

11) The Realistic Trend in the Development of the Abendvolkshochschule

Excursus: Academy of Labour (Akademie der Arbeit, Frankfurt a. M.)

Chapter III Residential Colleges

1) The Bauernvolkshochschulen

2) The Heimvolkshochschulen (Residential Colleges for Town People)

3) The Volkshochschulheime (Educational Town Hostels)

4) Some Achievements

5) The Camps for Young People

6) Conclusion

Chapter IV Some Problems of the German Volkshochschule Movement

A The Problem of “Neutrality”

1) Freie Volksbildung

2) “Neutrality” as Educational Philosophy

3) “Neutrality” as Political Tactics

4) The Essen System

5) The School of Leipzig

6) The Hohenrodt League

7) A Common Purpose?

B The Statutory Position of German Adult Education

1) Problems Confronting Adult Educational Policy

2) Public Assistance and Interference

3) Finances

4) The Tutors

C Social Effects and Background of Adult Education

1) The Students

2) Social Effect

3) The Volkshochschüler as a New Type of Social Functionary

4) The Social Position of the Volkshochschule Movement

5) Related Educational Forces

6) The Volkshochschule and the Masses (Formal and Informal Adult Education)

D Why did the Volkshochschule Fail? (An Attempt to Assess Achievement and Failure)

Chapter V The Fatal Slump

1) Psychological Depression (The “Fifth Estate”)

2) Vocational Retraining Courses for the Unemployed

3) Voluntary Labour Service

4) The Economic Slump

5) Surrender or Dissolution

6) Spiritual Opposition – A Hope for the Future

Chapter VI Some Reflections on the Future of German Adult Education

1) Adult Education in a Rebuilding Crisis

2) The Place of Adult Education in Rebuilding Democracy

3) The Purpose of Adult Education in Post-Nazi Germany

4) Social Forces and the Future of Adult Education in Germany

5) The Educational Approach

6) A New Community of Values?

7) The Public and Autonomous Status of Democratic Adult Education

8) Elitist or Mass Movement?

9) Adult Education in a Working Democracy

10) The Good Fight

Prosopographischer Anhang

Literaturverzeichnis

Index

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