German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917

by Edited by Henry Geitz , Jürgen Heideking , Jurgen Herbst

• ISBN13: 9780521470834
• ISBN10: 0521470838
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-03-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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

Introduction Jü

rgen Herbst

Part I. Americans and Germans look at each others schools: 1. American observations concerning the Prussian educational system in the nineteenth century Jarl Ernst Jeismann

2. Interdependence between democratic pedagogy in Germany and the development of education in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century Karl-Heinz Gü

nther

3. Prussian Volksschulen through American eyes: two perspectives on curriculum and teaching from the 1890s Gregory P. Wegner

4. American responses to German continuation schools during the progressive era Derek S. Linton

Part II. Varieties of Teachers and Styles of Teaching: 5. American and German women in the Kindergarten movement, 1850-1914 Ann Taylor Allen

6. German Ideas and Practice in American Natural History Museums Sally G. Kohlstedt

7. Schoolmarm, Volkserzieher, Kantor, and Schulschwester: German teachers among immigrants during the second half of the nineteenth century Juliane Jacobi

8. German models, American ways: the new movement among American physics teachers, 1905-1909 Kathryn M. Olesko

Part III. German Schools in America: 9. The von Mosheim society and the preservation of German education and culture in the new republic, 1789-1813 Anthony Greg Roeber

10. The German English Academy, the National German-American Teachers Seminary, and the public school system in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1851-1919 Bettina Goldberg

Part IV. The German Influence in Higher Education: 11. American students in Germany 1815-1914: The Structure of German and U.S. Matriculants at Gö

ttingen University Konrad H. Jarausch

12. Philip Schaff (1819-1893): his roles in American evangelical education Gary K. Pranger

13. German influence on the higher education of American women, 1865-1914 James C. Albisetti

14. Basil L. Gildersleeve: the formative influence Ward W. Briggs

15. A mediator between two historical worlds: Hermann Eduard von Holst and the University of Chicago Jö

rg Nagler

16. German influences on American clinical medicine, 1870-1914 Thomas N. Bonner.