Transatlantic Encounters in History of Education

Fanny Isensee is research assistant and PhD student at the History of Education Department at the Institute of Education Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Andreas Oberdorf is permanent lecturer in theory and history of education and supervisor of the research library of the Center for German-American Educational History at the Institute of Education, University of Münster, Germany. Daniel Töpper is research assistant and PhD student at the History of Education Department at the Institute of Education Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Volume Introduction: Reconceptualizing German-American Encounters in History of Education. Thematic Introduction: The Transnational in the History of Education 1. Educating Ebenezer: A Transfer from the Glaucha Institutions to Colonial Georgia? 2. "The School Gives Us Hope for Better Times": Pastors from Halle and the Education of Their German-Lutheran Congregations in Pennsylvania, 1745–1800 3. The Hallensian Pastor John Christopher Kunze (1744–1807) and His Attempts at Establishing a Preacher Seminary in North America 4. "The State’s First Duty": Public Education and the Liberal Conundrum in American Educational Reports from Germany 5. The Intercultural Transfer of Knowledge and Concepts About Higher Education: George Ticknor’s Travel Logs from His Study Stay in Germany, 1815–1817 6. George Ticknor in Göttingen: An Impact of German Comparative Constitutional Thought on American Education, 1816–1836 7. Samuel Adler in New York: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Education in Transatlantic and Translational Perspective 8. "The Past and Present State of Education, in the United States, and in Foreign Countries": Foreign Educational Systems in US Educational Periodicals, 1830–1890 9. SurFacing the TransAtlantic: The Body as Means of Travel, 1839–1910 10. But Can the Farm Travel?: Translating Knowledge from Germany to the United States in Late-Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Education 11. American and German Research Universities Between the Beginning and End of the German Reich 12. Objects That Work: Monroe’s "Cyclopedia of Education," Its Reception of German References and Thoughts on Objects as Actors 13. Nature and the "Kehrt zur Natur zurück": German Influences on the School Camping Movement in the United States, 1920–1950 14. Harvard-Bauhaus Pedagogy: Walter Gropius’s and Joseph Hudnut’s Dispute on Bauhaus Pedagogy at the Graduate School of Design, 1937–1952 15. Internationalization in Teacher Education: Transfer of Knowledge and Culture Stimulated by the German-American Fulbright Scholarship Program for Teachers, 1952–1974. Perspectives on Transnational and Transatlantic Research in History of Education: A Round Table Discussion on Its State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Directions