ABSTRACT
In the 17th century, the basic conviction about the essence of teaching and learning was that the pupil learns what the teacher teaches. This teaching and learning culture can be analyzed as an Erziehung-Culture. The motion of learning developed in the course of the transformation processes of civil society. Based on the analysis of the media epochs of bourgeois society, the movement of learning can be reconstructed and presented genealogically. Learning and the media and socio-cultural development of learning is an effect of bourgeois society’s transformation processes. The learning subject and their self-determination were increasingly the focus of pedagogical considerations. The new understanding of teaching and learning was deeply linked with the bourgeois book culture, as can be seen in the example of Heinrich Campe. Heinrich Campe was one of the most important German enlightenment educators and philanthropists, who founded his educational institute in 1777.
