| Jürgen OverhoffAnne Overbeck(eds.)New Perspectives onGerman-AmericanEducational History | 1 |
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| Impressum | 2 |
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| Inhaltsverzeichnis | 6 |
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| Acknowledgemnts | 8 |
| Jürgen OverhoffNew Perspectives on German-American EducationalHistory: An Introduction | 10 |
| Patrick M. Erben“To Direct / My Loving Countrymans Defect”:Translingual Education in German-SpeakingPennsylvania, 1683–1760 | 25 |
| Bethany WigginPoor Christoph’s Almanac:Popular Media and Imperial Education in ColonialPennsylvania | 44 |
| Heike BungertGerman Americans and their Efforts to Bring ‘Cultur’to the United States, 1848–1914 | 64 |
| German-American Festivals and their Emphasis on Culture | 64 |
| Celebrating German and German-American “Culture Heroes” | 69 |
| Conclusion | 83 |
| Frank TrommlerNegotiating German “Kultur” and “Wissenschaft” inAmerican Intellectual Life, 1870–1918 | 84 |
| 1 Germany: From the Stalwart of Culture to the Epitome ofBarbarism | 84 |
| 2 The German University as a Model – An American Projection | 88 |
| 3 The “Passion for Culture” and the Challenges of Specialization | 93 |
| 4 German Kultur as a Target of American Nationalism | 99 |
| 5 Situating the Story in its Historical Context | 102 |
| Charlotte A. LergUses and Abuses of the First German-AmericanProfessorial Exchange, 1905–1914 | 105 |
| Academic Relations and Cultural Diplomacy | 106 |
| Setting up Contact | 112 |
| The First World War | 119 |
| Anne OverbeckBetween Goethe and Washington:German-American Life in Indianapolis in the EarlyTwentieth Century | 123 |
| “Wahrt deutsches Wesen”– The Decline of German-American Culture before World War I | 124 |
| Niebuhr, Kallen and the American Melting Pot – Renegotiating German-American Identity from 1914–1917 | 129 |
| “Their Allegiance Firm without Crack” –German-American Culture under Attack, 1917–1919 | 134 |
| German-American Culture after the End of the War | 139 |
| Simon RichterGoethe Goes to Yale: William James, Carl Jung,William Speck, Alice Raphael and the Pursuit ofPersonality, 1917–1932 | 144 |
| Ewald Terhart“Research on Teaching” in the USA and “Didaktik” in(West-) Germany: Influences since 1945 | 160 |
| 1 Re-education and Reconstruction | 162 |
| 2 1960s: The times they are a-changing | 163 |
| 3 The Golden Era of reform: from the 1960s to the 1970s | 166 |
| 4 The New Century: Globalization of Educational Discourse | 174 |
| Johannes BellmannThe Reception of Dewey in Germany after PISA:On the Language of Progressivism and itsAdaptability | 176 |
| Introduction | 176 |
| Educational Theory, Research, and Policy | 180 |
| Concluding Remarks | 191 |
| Hartmut LehmannThe Quincentennial Commemoration of theProtestant Reformation on Both Sides of the Atlantic | 194 |
| Selected Bibliography | 206 |
| Index of names | 226 |
| Index of places | 230 |
| Table of figures | 232 |
| Contributors | 233 |
| Cover | 237 |
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