Full Description
Over the past two hundred years German education policy and practice has attracted interest in England. Policy makers have used the 'German example' both to encourage change and development and to warn against certain courses of action. This monograph provides the first major analysis of the rich material from government reports (including work by Matthew Arnold), the press, travel accounts, memoirs, scholarly publications and the archives to uncover the nature of the English fascination with education in Germany, from 1800 to the end of the twentieth century. David Phillips traces this story and uses recent work in theories of educational policy 'borrowing' to analyze the reception of the German experience and its impact on the development of English education policy.
Contents
1. Policy borrowing in education: Historical and theoretical perspectives; 2. Testing the ground: The beginnings of British interest in education in Gemany, 1800 - 1833; 3. Establishing state involvement in education: The German example in England, 1833 - 1870; 4. Towards a national system of education in England: The spectre of Germany, 1870 - 1902; 5. Excursus: The German University; 6. Local control in education, 1902 - 1918; 7. Influence of the reform debate in Germany, 1918 - 1933; 8. Excursus: Britain and education in Germany during National Socialism and its aftermath, 1933 - 1949; 9. From post-war reconstruction to radical reform in England: Learning from German success in education, 1944 - 1988; 10. Measuring performance in education in England and Germany, 1988 - 2000; 11. Evaluating the German example; Appendices; Bibliography.