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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783591703321

Autore

Rodden John

Titolo

Repainting the little red schoolhouse : a history of Eastern German education, 1945-1995 / / John Rodden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

0-19-756110-1

0-19-028323-8

1-280-45366-4

0-19-534438-3

1-60256-647-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (551 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

370/.943/1

Soggetti

Education - Germany (East) - History

Communism and education - Germany (East)

Educational change - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Abbreviations; Prologue: Unlessons, Far and Near; ''Who Has the Youth, Has the Future''; 1 From Brown to Red: The Fall and Rise of an Educational System, 1945-51; 2 Marooned in the Workers' Paradise: Cold War Catechetics, 1951-61; 3 After the Wall: Pride before the Fall, 1961-89; 4 After the Wall II: The Fall and Rise of an Educational System; 5 Leipzig, 1990: Karl Marx-Universität, RIP: Postmortems on the God that Failed; 6 Plauen, 1990/1992/1994: From Schoolmarm to Revolutionary: Annaliese Saupe, Old ''New Teacher'' and Local Heroine

7 Leipzig, 1991: Of Laughter and Forgetting: A Faculty-Student Conflict of Generations 8 Berlin, 1991: Dialectical Dilemmas in the Universities: West Side Story, East Side Story; 9 Leipzig, 1993: Of Sport, State, and Stasi: Socialism with an Un-Beautiful Face; 10 Weimar, 1991;  Weimar/Röcken, 1994: Zarathustra as Educator? To the Nietzsche Archives; 11 Berlin, 1994: Bridge over Broken Glass? A Journey to



Germany's Sole Jewish High School; 12 Weimar, 1994: Difficulties with the Truth: Coping with the DDR's Past in the New Eastern Classroom

13 Berlin, 1994: No Difficulties with the Truth? The Last Testament of Philosopher-Dissident Wolfgang Harich Epilogue: Education for Tolerance, Education for National Identity: The Unusable German Past?; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study of East German education traces the full history of attempts to create a new Marxist nation by means of educational reform. It looks beyond education to encompass other related areas, and the historical narrative extends to post-GDR life.