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Author Phillips, David, 1944 December 15- author.

Title The German example : English interest in educational provision in Germany since 1800 / David Phillips
Published London ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (122 pages) : illustrations
Contents Illustrations; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; A Note on the Text; Chapter 1; Policy 'Borrowing' in Education and the German Example: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; Comparative inquiry in education and the attractiveness of the German example; The transfer of ideas and policies; Definitions and periods; Chapter 2; Testing the Ground: The Beginnings of British Interest in Education in Germany; Provision in education: England 1800-33; Provision in education, Germany 1800-40; Early British interest in German provision in education
Some informed observers of the German scenePestalozzi and other thinkers; Some travellers and their accounts of education in Germany; Brief popular accounts of education in Germany; Chapter 3; Establishing State Involvement in Education: The German Example in England, 1833-70; Victor Cousin and Sarah Austin; First vote of funds for education; Mrs Trollope on education in Germany; The Quarterly Journal of Education, 1831-5; Select committee on the State of Education (1834); Publications of the Central Society of Education; Committee of Council on Education (1839)
William Dyce on schools of design (1840)William Howitt; Henry Mayhew; The Great Exhibition; Royal Commissions, 1861-8; The Newcastle Report (1861); The Clarendon Report (1864); The Taunton Report (1868); Matthew Arnold and education in Germany; Towards the 1870 Education Act; Chapter 4; Towards a National System of Education in England, 1870-1918; I. The spectre of Germany, 1870-1902; The 1870 Education Act; Royal Commission on Technical Instruction, 1882-4; The Cross Report; Michael Sadler and the availability of information on Germany; The Bryce Commission (1895)
Technological advance in GermanyAttraction of the reform movement in modern language teaching in Germany; The education of girls; Publications on education in Germany around the turn of the century; II. From Balfour to Fisher, 1902-18; Towards the 1918 Education Act; Chapter 5; Excursus: Aspects of the German University; The Humdoldtian concept of the university; German professors: caricature and politicisation; The modern period: no longer a model?; Chapter 6; Developments in England and Germany, 1918-39; Education in Germany after the First World War
Developments in England in the interwar periodChapter 7; From the Second World War to Post-War Reconstruction, Radical Reform, and Beyond in England: Lessons from Germany Since 1939; The 1944 Education Act; Occupied Germany: the British Zone; Towards the 1988 Educational Reform Act in England; Education in the German Democratic Republic and German Unification; The importance of vocational education and training; Chapter 8; Evaluating the German Example; Appendices; (1) Educational Provision in Germany, 1886; (2) German Influence on Education in England; (3) Imitating German Education, 1916
Summary Over the past two hundred years German education policy and practice has attracted interest in England. Policy makers have used the ''German example'' both to encourage change and development and to warn against certain courses of action. This monograph provides the first major analysis of the rich material from government reports (including work by Matthew Arnold), the press, travel accounts, memoirs, scholarly publications and the archives to uncover the nature of the English fascination with education in Germany, from 1800 to the end of the twentieth century. David Phillips traces this stor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Education -- Great Britain -- History
Education -- Great Britain -- German influences
Education -- Germany -- History
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Education.
Education -- German influences.
International relations.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Relations -- Germany
Germany -- Relations -- Great Britain
Subject Germany.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441107190
1441107193