Transatlantic Encounters in History of Education: Translations and Trajectories from a German-American Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367515461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 310 str.

Isensee, Fanny

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Germany and the United States of America represent one of the most complex and vivid educational spaces between the 18th and 20th century. This book offers case studies and methodical discussions on transatlantic encounters between the two contexts and draws attention to shifting trajectories.

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Volume Introduction: Reconceptualizing German-American Encounters in History of Education.  Thematic Introduction: The Transnational in the History of Education  1. Educating Ebenezer: A Transfer from the Glaucha Institutions to Colonial Georgia?  2. "The School Gives Us Hope for Better Times": Pastors from Halle and the Education of Their German-Lutheran Congregations in Pennsylvania, 1745–1800  3. The Hallensian Pastor John Christopher Kunze (1744–1807) and His Attempts at Establishing a Preacher Seminary in North America  4. "The State’s First Duty": Public Education and the Liberal Conundrum in American Educational Reports from Germany  5. The Intercultural Transfer of Knowledge and Concepts About Higher Education: George Ticknor’s Travel Logs from His Study Stay in Germany, 1815–1817  6. George Ticknor in Göttingen: An Impact of German Comparative Constitutional Thought on American Education, 1816–1836  7. Samuel Adler in New York: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Education in Transatlantic and Translational Perspective  8. "The Past and Present State of Education, in the United States, and in Foreign Countries": Foreign Educational Systems in US Educational Periodicals, 1830–1890  9. SurFacing the TransAtlantic: The Body as Means of Travel, 1839–1910  10. But Can the Farm Travel?: Translating Knowledge from Germany to the United States in Late-Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Education  11. American and German Research Universities Between the Beginning and End of the German Reich  12. Objects That Work: Monroe’s "Cyclopedia of Education," Its Reception of German References and Thoughts on Objects as Actors  13. Nature and the "Kehrt zur Natur zurück": German Influences on the School Camping Movement in the United States, 1920–1950  14. Harvard-Bauhaus Pedagogy: Walter Gropius’s and Joseph Hudnut’s Dispute on Bauhaus Pedagogy at the Graduate School of Design, 1937–1952  15. Internationalization in Teacher Education: Transfer of Knowledge and Culture Stimulated by the German-American Fulbright Scholarship Program for Teachers, 1952–1974.  Perspectives on Transnational and Transatlantic Research in History of Education: A Round Table Discussion on Its State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Directions