Transitions and traditions: educational developments in the New Germany in their historical context [1992]

In this chapter I shall attempt to place current concerns about the future of education in the New Germany against a historical background of those traditions and transitions that have shaped the system since the early years of the last century. In so doing I shall draw particularly on recent personal experience as a member of a commission appointed by the German Science Council, the Wissenschaftsrat, to report on the future of teacher education in the territory of the former German Democratic Republic, that part of the New Germany whose description now causes such difficulty both in English and in German.