Forgotten Pedagogues of German Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Introduction

   • Ralf Koerrenz, Sebastian Engelmann

   Pages 1-13

3. Joachim Heinrich Campe and the Pedagogical Anthropology of the Child

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   Pages 15-37

4. Bernhard Heinrich Blasche and the Romantic Concept of Nature Education

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   Pages 39-57

5. Helene Lange, Emancipation and Education for All

   • Ralf Koerrenz, Sebastian Engelmann

   Pages 59-78

6. Heinrich Scharrelmann and the Art of Storytelling

   • Ralf Koerrenz, Sebastian Engelmann

   Pages 79-99

7. Bernhard Hell and the Protestant School Community

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   Pages 101-123

8. Gertrud Bäumer, Deconstructing Gender and Discussing Social Work

   • Ralf Koerrenz, Sebastian Engelmann

   Pages 125-143

9. Back Matter

   Pages 145-147

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This book introduces six pedagogues from the German context to an English-speaking audience, and demonstrates their significant contribution to the field of alternative education. First and foremost, the authors emphasise the importance of understanding the history of education, to realise that in fact what we understand as ‘normal’ today is by no means the only course history could have taken. The quest for alternative ways of schooling goes back to the late eighteenth century, where educational thinkers advocated various approaches in the face of rapid societal change. The chosen six thinkers are not well known in the English-speaking scientific community, and some are even infrequently cited in the German context. In offering an historic and systematic introduction to concepts that can frame Alternative Education in different ways, this book allows the reader to critically reevaluate present forms of education by using the past as a mirror.  

• German Education research
• Alternative Education theory
• Erziehung
• Bildung
• Schulpflicht
• Christian Gotthilf Salzmann
• Johann Heinrich Campe
• Bernhard Henrich Blasche
• Adolph Diesterweg
• Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld
• Wilhelm Rein
• Helene Lange
• Getrud Bäumer

• Institute for Bildung and Culture, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

  Ralf Koerrenz

• Institute for Education, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  Sebastian Engelmann

Ralf Koerrenz is Professor in Historical Pedagogy and Global Education at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. His research interests include the philosophy of education, religious education and the theory and practice of New Education. 


Sebastian Engelmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Education Sciences at the University of Tübingen, Germany. 

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