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Germany

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...Country overview In Germany, schooling is highly stratified and children are streamed very early, after four or six years of primary schooling, into a variety of school types. Lower secondary education exhibits a status hierarchy extending...

Germany: Educational goals, curricular structure, political principles

Wilfried Gruhn

Wilfried Gruhn

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The Origins and Foundations of Music Education : International Perspectives

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Introduction Music instruction in public schools in Germany has a rather long history (for review see Braun 1957; Ehrenforth 1995, 1997; Gruhn 2003; Günther 1967; Nolte 1982, 1991; Schmidt 1986; Sowa 1973). However, when...

Totalitarian Schooling

Charles L. Glenn

Charles L. Glenn is Professor of Educational Leadership at Boston University. He is the author of nine books including The Myth of the Common School (published also in Italian and Spanish), Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, and Educating Immigrant Children, and co-author of a multi-volume study of educational policies in forty countries. From 1970 to 1991 Professor Glenn served as director of urban education and equity efforts for the Massachusetts Department of Education, and he has served as a consultant to Russian and Chinese education authorities, and to states and major cities across the United States. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Contrasting Models of State and School : A Comparative Historical Study of Parental Choice and State Control

Continuum, 2011

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...National Socialist Education and Indoctrination The use that Hitler and his associates intended to make of education was no secret years before they took power. In Mein Kampf, Hitler had written that the educational efforts...

Policy ‘Borrowing’ in Education and the German Example: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

David Phillips

David Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education at the University of Oxford, UK, and an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The German Example : English Interest in Educational Provision in Germany Since 1800

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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...I hope with time to convince people that I do not care the least for importing this or that foreign machinery, whether it be French or German, but only for getting certain English deficiencies supplied.The true greatness of a people does...

Developments in England and Germany, 1918–39

David Phillips

David Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education at the University of Oxford, UK, and an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The German Example : English Interest in Educational Provision in Germany Since 1800

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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...England is rubbing its eyes and gradually discovering the difference between teaching youth and advancing science. That difference no one needs to expound to Germany. And for this reason, its aberrations and inadequacies, deplorable...

Virtual and Augmented Reality and Mobile Technologies in Religious Education

Jens Palkowitsch-Kühl

Jens Palkowitsch-Kühl

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Karsten Müller

Karsten Müller

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Transforming Teacher Education with Mobile Technologies

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...The potential of virtual and augmented reality in education scenarios In recent years, the buzzwords of ‘virtual’ und ‘augmented’ worlds have been given more and more room in societal discourse. Without a doubt, a pioneering role was played...

Consolidation of State Control 1880–1930

Charles L. Glenn

Charles L. Glenn is Professor of Educational Leadership at Boston University. He is the author of nine books including The Myth of the Common School (published also in Italian and Spanish), Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, and Educating Immigrant Children, and co-author of a multi-volume study of educational policies in forty countries. From 1970 to 1991 Professor Glenn served as director of urban education and equity efforts for the Massachusetts Department of Education, and he has served as a consultant to Russian and Chinese education authorities, and to states and major cities across the United States. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Contrasting Models of State and School : A Comparative Historical Study of Parental Choice and State Control

Continuum, 2011

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...Germany The wave of revolutions, which threatened the existing order in most of the countries of Europe in 1848, was followed by a period of reaction in France, Italy, and the various German states. Golo Mann summarized the March...

Educational Statesmanship and Its Discontents, 1955–71

Wayne J. Urban

Wayne J. Urban is Emeritus Professor at the University of Alabama, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Scholarly Leadership in Higher Education : An Intellectual History of James Bryan Conant

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...James Bryant Conant spent nearly four years in West Germany in his diplomatic position. However, it was clear early on in his diplomatic career that his time there would be relatively short and he quickly began making arrangements for his...

Using Video Documentaries in History and Social Science

Ulf Kerber

Ulf Kerber

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Transforming Teacher Education with Mobile Technologies

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...Introduction In the last couple of years, the unabashed way political players, aided by social media, generate and circulate evidently falsified assertions and ‘alternative facts’ to reap political profit is alarming. For this purpose...

Sociocultural Attitudes and Influences

Brendan Bartram

Brendan Bartram is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Wolverhampton, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Attitudes to Modern Foreign Language Learning : Insights from Comparative Education

Continuum, 2010

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...The ‘sociocultural’ catch-all constitutes something of a challenge in terms of specifying particular variables and their possible classification. Cargile et al. (1994) 226) refer to the range and scope of factors within...