German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917,9780521026246

German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780521026246
ISBN10: 0521026245
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-04-27
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This volume summarizes recent scholarship on German-American relations in the field of education until World War I. The articles prove the various influences of German scholarship and institutions on the development of the American system of education from kindergarten to university. The book provides an overview for the benefit of scholars, students and the interested general reader. As a cooperative effort of German and American scholars the volume is intended to stimulate further exploration of these themes on both continents.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Introduction 1(20)
Jurgen Herbst
PART ONE AMERICANS AND GERMANS LOOK AT EACH OTHER'S SCHOOLS
American Observations Concerning the Prussian Educational System in the Nineteenth Century
21(22)
Karl-Ernst Jeismann
Interdependence between Democratic Pedagogy in Germany and the Development of Education in the United States in the Nineteenth Century
43(16)
Karl-Heinz Gunther
Prussian Volksschulen through American Eyes: Two Perspectives on Curriculum and Teaching from the 1890s
59(10)
Gregory P. Wegner
American Responses to German Continuation Schools during the Progressive Era
69(16)
Derek S. Linton
PART TWO VARIETIES OF TEACHERS AND STYLES OF TEACHING
American and German Women in the Kindergarten Movement, 1850--1914
85(18)
Ann Taylor Allen
German Ideas and Practice in American Natural History Museums
103(12)
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Schoolmarm, Volkserzieher, Kantor, and Schulschwester: German Teachers among Immigrants during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
115(14)
Juliane Jacobi
German Models, American Ways: The ``New Movement'' among American Physics Teachers, 1905--1909
129(28)
Kathryn M. Olesko
PART THREE GERMAN SCHOOLS IN AMERICA
The von Mosheim Society and the Preservation of German Education and Culture in the New Republic, 1789--1813
157(20)
Anthony Gregg Roeber
The German-English Academy, the National German-American Teachers' Seminary, and the Public School System in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1851--1919
177(18)
Bettina Goldberg
PART FOUR THE GERMAN INFLUENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION
American Students in Germany, 1815--1914: The Structure of German and U.S. Matriculants at Gottingen University
195(18)
Konrad H. Jarausch
Philip Schaff: His Role in American Evangelical Education
213(14)
Gary K. Pranger
German Influence on the Higher Education of American Women, 1865--1914
227(18)
James C. Albisetti
Basil L. Gildersleeve: The Formative Influence
245(12)
Ward W. Briggs
A Mediator between Two Historical Worlds: Hermann Eduard von Holst and the University of Chicago
257(18)
Jorg Nagler
German Influences on American Clinical Medicine, 1870--1914
275(14)
Thomas N. Bonner
Index 289

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