Teachers and changing authority patterns in eastern German schools

Comparative Education Review

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 358-373

  Mintrop, Heinrich ^a  

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DOI: 10.1086/447399     Document Type: Article

References (37)

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2. Amy Guttmann, Democratic Education (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987).
3. Ibid.
4. Helmut Wiesenthal, "Absturz in die Moderne: Der Sonderstatus der DDR in den Transformationsprozessen Osteuropas" (Plunge into modernity: The special status of the GDR in the Eastern European transformation), ZeS Arbeitspapier 8 (Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, Bremen, 1991), "Institutionelle Dynamik und soziale Defensive" (Institutional dynamic and social defensive), BISS PUBLIC 3, no. 11 (1993): 5-23.
5. Helmut Wiesenthal, "Absturz in die Moderne: Der Sonderstatus der DDR in den Transformationsprozessen Osteuropas" (Plunge into modernity: The special status of the GDR in the Eastern European transformation), ZeS Arbeitspapier 8 (Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, Bremen, 1991), "Institutionelle Dynamik und soziale Defensive" (Institutional dynamic and social defensive), BISS PUBLIC 3, no. 11 (1993): 5-23.
6. Wolfgang Zapf, "Die Transformation in der ehemaligen DDR und die sozialogische Theorie der Modernisierung" (The transformation of the former GDR and the sociological theory of modernization), in AG Sozialberichterstattung des WZB für Sozialforschung (Berlin and Cologne: Wissenschaftszentrum), pp. 92-104.
7. Wolfgang Mitter, "Educational Adjustments and Perspectives in a United Germany," Comparative Education 28, no. 1 (1992): 45-52.
8. Thüringer Kulturministerium, Vorläufiges Bildungsgesetz. (Preliminary Education Act) (Erfurt: Thüringer Kulturministerium, 1991), par. 2.2.
9. Ibid, par. 11.2.
10. Ministerium für Bildung, Jugend und Sport, Brandenburg, Erstes Schulreformgesetz für das Land Brandenburg (First School Reform Act for the State of Brandenburg) (Potsdam: Ministerium für Bildung, Jugend und Sport, 1991), par. 2.
11. Thüringer Kulturministerium, Vorläugiges Bildungsgesetz, pars. 21-24.
12. Thüringer Kulturministerium, Vorläufige Schulordnung für die Regelschule (Preliminary Education Code for the Regelschule) (Erfurt: Thüringer Kulturministerium, 1991), pars. 4.2, 5.1, 22.4.
13. R. Rudolf, "Was ist das wirklich, Erziehung?" (What is it really: Education?) Pädagogik 45, no. 12 (1990): 914-21.
14. Hans Weiler, Heinrich Mintrop, and Elisabeth Fuhrmann, Educational Change and Social Transformation (London: Falmer, 1996).
15. Zapf, p. 3.
16. Ibid., p. 6.
17. W. Schmidt, Lehrerüberprüfungen und Stellenreduzierungen in den neuen Bundesländern (Background checks of teachers and job reduction in the new federal states) (Berlin: Gesamtdeutsches Institut, 1991).
18. Bernd Giesen and Claus Leggewie, Experiment Vereinigung (Experiment unification) (Berlin: Rotbuch, 1991); D. Kirchhöfer, I. Steiner, D. Zilch, and J. Zinnecker, eds. Jugend 92: Die Neuen Länder: Rückblick und Perspektiven (The new states: Retrospectives and perspectives) (Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1992).
19. Bernd Giesen and Claus Leggewie, Experiment Vereinigung (Experiment unification) (Berlin: Rotbuch, 1991); D. Kirchhöfer, I. Steiner, D. Zilch, and J. Zinnecker, eds. Jugend 92: Die Neuen Länder: Rückblick und Perspektiven (The new states: Retrospectives and perspectives) (Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1992).
20. Ludwig von Friedeburg, Bildungsreform in Deutschland (Educational reform in Germany) (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1992).
21. See John Schwille, A. Porter, L. Alford, R. Floden, D. Freeman, S. Erwin, and W. Schmidt, "State Policy and the Control of Curriculum Decisions," Educational Policy 2, no. 1 (1988): 29-50; Michael Huberman and Matthew Miles, Innovation Up Close (New York: Plenum, 1984).
22. See John Schwille, A. Porter, L. Alford, R. Floden, D. Freeman, S. Erwin, and W. Schmidt, "State Policy and the Control of Curriculum Decisions," Educational Policy 2, no. 1 (1988): 29-50; Michael Huberman and Matthew Miles, Innovation Up Close (New York: Plenum, 1984).
23. Richard Elmore and Gary Sykes, "Curriculum Policy," in Handbook of Research on Curriculum, ed. Philip Jackson (New York: MacMillan, 1992), pp. 185-215.
24. Michael Fullan, Change Forces (London: Falmer, 1993).
25. Seymour Sarason, The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990).
26. Fullan, Change Forces, p. 19.
27. Klaus Riedel, Martin Griwatz, Hands Leuten, and Jürgen Westphal, Schule im Vereinigungsprozeβ (Schools in the unification process) (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1994).
28. Heinrich Mintrop and Hans Weiler, "The Relationship between Educational Policy and Practice: The Reconstitution of the College-Preparatory Gymnasium in East Germany," Harvard Educational Review 64, no. 3 (1994): 247-77.
29. Weiler, Mintrop, and Fuhrmann (n. 13 above), chap. 4.
30. Schwille et al.
31. Klaus Offe, "Prosperity, Nation, Republic: Aspects of the Unique German Journey from Socialism to Capitalism," German Politics and Society 22 (1991): 18-32.
32. Table 3 lists a number of items that were used to construct two scales: a GDR society scale that measures teachers' beliefs about social, political, economic, and ideological aspects of the previous socialist society and a GDR school scale that measures teachers' assessments of social and academic aspects of the dissolved GDR schools.
33. Freya Klier, Lüg Vaterland, Erziehung in der DDR (Lie, Fatherland: Education in the GDR) (Munich: Kindler, 1990).
34. Peter Förster and Walter Friedrich, "Politische Einstellungen und Grundpositionen Jugendlicher in Ostdeutschland" (Political attitudes and fundamental positions of eastern German youths), Aw Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Beilage zur Wochenzeitung Das Parlament B38 (September 11, 1992): 3-15; Dieter Kirchhöfer, "Schülerforderungen in der Wende" (Demands of students during the Wende), in Kirchhöfer et al., eds. (n. 17 above), pp. 123-37.
35. Peter Förster and Walter Friedrich, "Politische Einstellungen und Grundpositionen Jugendlicher in Ostdeutschland" (Political attitudes and fundamental positions of eastern German youths), Aw Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Beilage zur Wochenzeitung Das Parlament B38 (September 11, 1992): 3-15; Dieter Kirchhöfer, "Schülerforderungen in der Wende" (Demands of students during the Wende), in Kirchhöfer et al., eds. (n. 17 above), pp. 123-37.
36. The closest equivalent of the Klassenlehrer would be the homeroom teacher or advisor of a core group of students that move from class to class together.
37. Freie Deutsche Jugend Nachmittage (Free German Youth Afternoons). Each class collective would meet regularly after school with the Klassenlehrer for after-school activities.