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Lehrende/r: Dr. Philipp Reisner
Veranstaltungsart:
online: Seminar
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05.866.512
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: AS 512
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
In this seminar we will explore the history of education in North America from colonial times to the present. We will deal with texts and audio-visual media from a great variety of genres including allegory, biography, essay, short story, and fairy tale, in order to provide ourselves with a first cultural, theological, and historical aperçu of the changes and developments in the education of children, teenagers, and adults. Education will therefore be dealt with in its broadest sense including both its personal, familial, societal, and institutional aspects. Instead of focusing on the literary virtues of the texts under scrutiny, our guiding questions will be: how should we ideally educate others? How would we ideally want to be educated? How far can education be conceptualized? Do the historical changes in conceptualizing and organizing education matter? What are their effects? To what extent can institutionalized public education replace familial private education? Do we presently radically overemphasize the significance of the former in order to divert public opinion from failures in the latter? We will use close readings in American cultural history to discuss the pressing questions of our time in the field of education and trace their historical delineation.
The seminar aims at a balanced choice of texts from all times of the four hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history under scrutiny. Therefore you should be interested both in the most recent, and in the demanding, but also fascinating and richly rewarding earlier documents and be willing to read some longer texts.
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1996, ISBN 9781853264689 .
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography and other Writings, 2001, ISBN 9780451528100 .
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 2002, ISBN 9780486424439 .
John Dewey, Experience & Education, 1997, ISBN 9780684838281 .
Neil Postman, The End of Education. Redefining the Value of School, 1996, ISBN 9780679750314 .
The use of these print editions is required; all other texts and a syllabus will be made available electronically.
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