German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917 (Hardcover)

Introduction Jurgen Herbst; Part I. Americans and Germans Look at Each Others Schools: 1. American observations concerning the Prussian educational system in the nineteenth century Karl 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 Gunther; 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 Gottingen 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 Jorg Nagler; 16. German influences on American clinical medicine, 1870?1914 Thomas N. Bonner; Index.