The Politics of Progressive Education: The Odenwaldschule in Nazi Germany

by Dennis Shirley

In March 1933, Nazi storm troopers seized control of the Odenwaldschule, a small German boarding school near Heidelberg. Founded in 1910 by educational reformer Paul Geheeb, the Odenwaldschule was a crown jewel of the progressive education movement, renowned for its emancipatory pedagogical innovations and sweeping curricular reforms. In the tumultuous year that followed that fateful spring, Geheeb moved from an initial effort to accommodate Nazi...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674687590
• ISBN13: 9780674687592
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"