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Author Puaca, Brian M., author.

Title Learning democracy : education reform in West Germany, 1945-1965 / Brian M. Puaca
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 221 pages) : illustrations
Series Monographs in German history ; v. 27
Monographs in German history ; v. 27.
Contents Introduction; Chapter 1-Rebuilding Education in a 'New Spirit"; Chapter 2-"We Learned What Democracy Really Meant"; Chapter 3-Political Education; Chapter 4-Reform Reignited; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democracy, a member of NATO, and a close ally of the West. Had the schools really failed to contribute to this remarkable transformation of German society and political culture?. This study persuasively argues that long before the protest movements of the late 1960s, the West German educational system was und
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (203-215) and index
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Subject Educational change -- Germany (West) -- History
Education -- Political aspects -- Germany (West) -- History
Education and state -- Germany (West) -- History
EDUCATION -- Comparative.
EDUCATION -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Education and state
Education -- Political aspects
Educational change
Germany (West)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009012812
ISBN 9781845459284
1845459288
9781845455682
1845455681
9781282627871
1282627872