The authors argue that learning is not only a process basing on speech but as well one of the body. Learning also includes civilizing the body, being able to control the muscles and the emotions and to behave in different contexts. Each institution and culture develops modes of bodily behavour. Institutions like schools, societies and political systems present different models that are to be learned. The question of the following article is that which models for pupils the two German systems had developed and how these where performed by the pupils. The autors show that the model of the diligent pupil was present in both systems, because the behaviour connected to this model is functionally adequate for learning. Western Germany also promoted the model of the �pensive� pupil which was mainly presented for male students. The GDR developed the �socialist pupil personality� that included a political role as an activist and �polytechnics�. But it was difficult to find an own presentation for that. From the sixties on the model ressembled more and more that of the diligent pupil
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