Higher Education in the German Democratic Republic
Higher Education in the German Democratic Republic

Author: H. J. Schulz

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13:

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The system of higher education of the German Democratic Republic is described. Information on the different kinds of colleges--universities, university colleges, and engineering and technical colleges--is provided, including admission procedures, course objectives, course content and structure, further education, paths leading to the award of higher academic degrees, types of academic degrees awarded, training of foreign students, research at higher education institutions, the role of the library in the tertiary education system, senior academic staff, junior members of academic staffs at universities and university colleges, and college lecturers. Additional topics include: the integrated system of state administration, the administration of universities and university colleges, the administration of engineering and technical colleges, and international cooperation by universities, university colleges, and technical colleges. Appendices include diagrams of: the Integrated Socialist Education System, the routes to technical education, and the administrative structure at a university. Also appended are timetables for the curricula of livestock farming and technology of metal processing, and a list of higher education institutions. (SW)

Learning Democracy
Learning Democracy

Author: Brian M. Puaca

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781845455682

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Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democracy, a member of NATO, and a close ally of the West. Had the schools really failed to contribute to this remarkable transformation of German society and political culture? This study persuasively argues that long before the protest movements of the late 1960s, the West German educational system was undergoing meaningful reform from within. Although politicians and intellectual elites paid little attention to education after 1945, administrators, teachers, and pupils initiated significant changes in schools at the local level. The work of these actors resulted in an array of democratic reforms that signaled a departure from the authoritarian and nationalistic legacies of the past. The establishment of exchange programs between the United States and West Germany, the formation of student government organizations and student newspapers, the publication of revised history and civics textbooks, the expansion of teacher training programs, and the creation of a Social Studies curriculum all contributed to the advent of a new German educational system following World War II. The subtle, incremental reforms inaugurated during the first two postwar decades prepared a new generation of young Germans for their responsibilities as citizens of a democratic state.

Education, Employment, and Development in the German Democratic Republic
Education, Employment, and Development in the German Democratic Republic

Author: Klaus Korn

Publisher: UN

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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This research project is concerned with such questions as the following: How has East Germany responded to the challenges facing education's relationship to development, especially with respect to conditions imposed by the scientific and technical revolution? What contribution has its educational and training system made to industrialization and technical progress? And, conversely, what is the impact of that system on the evolution of technology and science? Following a preface and an introduction, three sections are devoted to (1) education and employment--fundamental theoretical problems and socioeconomic conditions; (2) the relationship between training, further education, and employment; and (3) education and employment planning. Section I contains chapters on education and employment as essential elements in the social reproduction process--methodology, trends in economic growth and employment, the system of education, and development problems of education and employment. Section II contains chapters on general education to prepare for working life, career and study guidance, and aims and content of vocational-training programs. Section III contains chapters on fundamental information, the planning principle, manpower planning and planning of the educational system, harmonization, long-term planning and forecasting, and research planning. A summary and a 51-item bibligrraphy follow. (DCS)

The German Democratic Republic since 1945
The German Democratic Republic since 1945

Author: Martin McCauley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1349184039

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The GDR is the most successful (in terms of living standards) socialist state but one of the least loved. Yet the GDR has formidable achievements to list, especially in education and health. On the other hand her feeling of insecurity has led to a creeping militarisation of society. The GDR provides communist states in the Third World with military training and expertise; she also trains security and police cadres. Hence the impact is being felt outside Europe. Does the GDR now present the face of the ugly German to the non-communist world? Her development is worthy of attention. As the Soviet Union's closest ally in Eastern Europe she may play a more important role there in the future as economic growth slows and tensions rise. She has, however, problems of her own which will require much hard work to resolve. Nevertheless she is the most stable socialist state in Eastern Europe at present. Will this continue? Will mass discontent mount as living standards stagnate? Just how important will the West German response be? The GDR is torn between East and West. If she is to weather the economic storms she requires closer links with West Germany and the West but politically and militarily she needs a closer relationship with the Soviet Union. '... competent and wide-ranging, covering not only political history but also the economy, education, culture, the position of women and foreign policy.' Leslie Holmes, Soviet Studies '... the main strength of this work is that it provides a mass of facts and figures in the main text and is yet eminently readable.' Roger Woods, Slavonic Review

Research And Technology In The Former German Democratic Republic
Research And Technology In The Former German Democratic Republic

Author: Raymond Bentley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1000309762

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This book discusses the strength of research and technology in the former German Democratic Republic, examining industrial labour productivity and utilising economic and technical indicators to analyse the technological levels of industry in the late 1980s.