New Perspectives on German-American Educational History (eBook)

Jürgen OverhoffAnne Overbeck(eds.)New Perspectives onGerman-AmericanEducational History 1
Impressum 2
Inhaltsverzeichnis 6
Acknowledgemnts 8
Jürgen OverhoffNew Perspectives on German-American EducationalHistory: An Introduction 10
Patrick M. Erben“To Direct / My Loving Countrymans Defect”:Translingual Education in German-SpeakingPennsylvania, 1683–1760 25
Bethany WigginPoor Christoph’s Almanac:Popular Media and Imperial Education in ColonialPennsylvania 44
Heike BungertGerman Americans and their Efforts to Bring ‘Cultur’to the United States, 1848–1914 64
German-American Festivals and their Emphasis on Culture 64
Celebrating German and German-American “Culture Heroes” 69
Conclusion 83
Frank TrommlerNegotiating German “Kultur” and “Wissenschaft” inAmerican Intellectual Life, 1870–1918 84
1 Germany: From the Stalwart of Culture to the Epitome ofBarbarism 84
2 The German University as a Model – An American Projection 88
3 The “Passion for Culture” and the Challenges of Specialization 93
4 German Kultur as a Target of American Nationalism 99
5 Situating the Story in its Historical Context 102
Charlotte A. LergUses and Abuses of the First German-AmericanProfessorial Exchange, 1905–1914 105
Academic Relations and Cultural Diplomacy 106
Setting up Contact 112
The First World War 119
Anne OverbeckBetween Goethe and Washington:German-American Life in Indianapolis in the EarlyTwentieth Century 123
“Wahrt deutsches Wesen”– The Decline of German-American Culture before World War I 124
Niebuhr, Kallen and the American Melting Pot – Renegotiating German-American Identity from 1914–1917 129
“Their Allegiance Firm without Crack” –German-American Culture under Attack, 1917–1919 134
German-American Culture after the End of the War 139
Simon RichterGoethe Goes to Yale: William James, Carl Jung,William Speck, Alice Raphael and the Pursuit ofPersonality, 1917–1932 144
Ewald Terhart“Research on Teaching” in the USA and “Didaktik” in(West-) Germany: Influences since 1945 160
1 Re-education and Reconstruction 162
2 1960s: The times they are a-changing 163
3 The Golden Era of reform: from the 1960s to the 1970s 166
4 The New Century: Globalization of Educational Discourse 174
Johannes BellmannThe Reception of Dewey in Germany after PISA:On the Language of Progressivism and itsAdaptability 176
Introduction 176
Educational Theory, Research, and Policy 180
Concluding Remarks 191
Hartmut LehmannThe Quincentennial Commemoration of theProtestant Reformation on Both Sides of the Atlantic 194
Selected Bibliography 206
Index of names 226
Index of places 230
Table of figures 232
Contributors 233
Cover 237