Geschichte der Pädagogik. Vom Beginn der Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart

Beginning with premodern contexts of modern pedagogy the following texts/authors with be dealt with: the pedagogy of humanism; concepts of rationality and education by Bacon and Comenius; connections between natural right and education by Locke and Rousseau; the pedagogical century in Germany (Pietism, philanthropism, and state education); the pedagogy of Kant and German idealism; the pedagogical Romantic and New Humanism; the systematic examinations of education by Pestalozzi, Herbart and Schleiermacher; the development of the German school system in the 19th Century, and; German pedagogy and educational science between 1890 and 1945, as well as in the SBZ (Soviet sector of Germany), GDR and in the BDR.