Desiderata for Research into Historical Concepts of Teacher Training: an attempt to update research into the history of teacher training in Germany

Abstract

Summary A study of the history of teacher training in Germany reveals some fascinating blind spots which have been ignored for decades. Pedagogical historiography must now liberate itself from Prussian dominance and take a keener interest in the activities which took place away from the better‐known centres of reform. The basically bipartite teacher training system for a tripartite school system has evolved into contradictory models of integration in the different federal states. 1This contribution was the final lecture in the working group meeting of the historical commission on ‘Teacher training caught between the employment crisis and structural reform’ during the 1982 conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Erziehungswissenschaft in Regensburg. This draft contains additional comments from my colleagues, Professor Dr J. Erger, Aachen, Professor Dr H. Scholtz, Berlin, Professor Dr Oelkers, Luneburg, Professor Dr Sandfuchs, Hildesheim, and from Dr Wynands, Aachen. I offer my hearty thanks for their c...