This volume summarizes recent scholarship on German-American relations in the field of education until World War I. The articles prove the various influences of German scholarship and institutions on the development of the American system of education from kindergarten to university. The book provides an overview for the benefit of scholars, students and the interested general reader. As a cooperative effort of German and American scholars the volume is intended to stimulate further exploration of these themes on both continents.

List of Contributors

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Introduction

(20)

Jurgen Herbst

PART ONE AMERICANS AND GERMANS LOOK AT EACH OTHER'S SCHOOLS

American Observations Concerning the Prussian Educational System in the Nineteenth Century

(22)

Karl-Ernst Jeismann

Interdependence between Democratic Pedagogy in Germany and the Development of Education in the United States in the Nineteenth Century

(16)

Karl-Heinz Gunther

Prussian Volksschulen through American Eyes: Two Perspectives on Curriculum and Teaching from the 1890s

(10)

Gregory P. Wegner

American Responses to German Continuation Schools during the Progressive Era

(16)

Derek S. Linton

PART TWO VARIETIES OF TEACHERS AND STYLES OF TEACHING

American and German Women in the Kindergarten Movement, 1850--1914

(18)

Ann Taylor Allen

German Ideas and Practice in American Natural History Museums

103

(12)

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt

Schoolmarm, Volkserzieher, Kantor, and Schulschwester: German Teachers among Immigrants during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

115

(14)

Juliane Jacobi

German Models, American Ways: The ``New Movement'' among American Physics Teachers, 1905--1909

129

(28)

Kathryn M. Olesko

PART THREE GERMAN SCHOOLS IN AMERICA

The von Mosheim Society and the Preservation of German Education and Culture in the New Republic, 1789--1813

157

(20)

Anthony Gregg Roeber

The German-English Academy, the National German-American Teachers' Seminary, and the Public School System in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1851--1919

177

(18)

Bettina Goldberg

PART FOUR THE GERMAN INFLUENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

American Students in Germany, 1815--1914: The Structure of German and U.S. Matriculants at Gottingen University

195

(18)

Konrad H. Jarausch

Philip Schaff: His Role in American Evangelical Education

213

(14)

Gary K. Pranger

German Influence on the Higher Education of American Women, 1865--1914

227

(18)

James C. Albisetti

Basil L. Gildersleeve: The Formative Influence

245

(12)

Ward W. Briggs

A Mediator between Two Historical Worlds: Hermann Eduard von Holst and the University of Chicago

257

(18)

Jorg Nagler

German Influences on American Clinical Medicine, 1870--1914

275

(14)

Thomas N. Bonner

Index

289

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German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917

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