Diesterweg und das Problem der deutschen Nationalerziehung

• Autores: Heinz Stübig
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 37, Nº. 2, 2001, págs. 341-365
• Idioma: alemán
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • National education plans, published in Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century, expressed the developing political consciousness of the middle classes who wanted to create conditions favourable for the development of national unity through education and learning in the face of existing resistance. Diesterweg's national pedagogical reflections can be seen within this context. If we look at his statements on this subject and the associated attempts to define German identity, we can find in Diesterweg's publications from 1848 onwards a development, which is characterised by a more and more idealised picture of the German nation and subsequently a distinct devaluation of neighbouring peoples. The glorification of the specifically German is legitimised by the special value of national descent and some seemingly unchangeable national characteristics, achievements, and values. Diesterweg's publications on German national education also reveal the sort of inheritance which is connected with the so-called liberal education of the 19th century in Germany and often is only seen under the limited aspect of pedagogical reform concepts and progressive political and social positions