Description
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi transformed education theory and practice worldwide. Daniel Tröhler connects Pestalozzi's work to its context in Europe's late 18th- and early 19th-century republican movement, offering readers a way to understand the sociopolitical significance of education and its central role in the development of modern societies.
Table of Contents
1. The Educationalization of Social Problems Around 1800 2. Zurich Around 1750: Economic and Cultural Boom and Revolutionary Activities 3. The Development and Early Fate of a Republican Revolutionary 4. The Christian Republic, Enlightenment, and Coercive Education 5. The American and the French Republics, German Idealism, and the Principle of Inwardness 6. The Helvetic Republic and the Discovery of 'the Method' 7. Propaganda and Institutional Success 8. European Demands for New Education: Political, National, Private 9. Pestalozzi's Charisma, a Guarantee of Success and a Problem 10. Public Critique, Restoration, Pestalozzi's Lonesome End, and the Beginning of Modern Mass Education 11. The Educationalized World and the Internationalization of the Cult of Pestalozzi 12. Pestalozzi, or an Ambiguous Legacy in Education
