Education disaster
The buzzword educational catastrophe in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s was used to describe the state of the education system in comparison with other industrialized countries.
Georg Picht brought the term into the discussion with a series of articles published in 1964 in the magazine Christ und Welt . In this he predicted Germany's disadvantages in international competition and a threat to democracy through an "educational emergency". Ralf Dahrendorf's book Education is Citizenship from 1965, in which he saw German democracy at risk due to insufficient education , went in a similar direction . The result were numerous reform efforts, from which the structural plan for the German education system and the federal-state commission for educational planning and research questions arose around 1970 . This debate resulted in the introduction of comprehensive schools in school trials in the 1970s .
However, the reform euphoria stalled again from 1973 onwards and even today public spending on education is in some cases well below the OECD average .
The title refers to the boy catastrophe by Frank Beuster , an educational guide published in 2006, which, instead of the Catholic working-class girl from the country, as with Picht, discussed disadvantaged boys in the educational system .
See also
- Educational paradox
- Educational reform
- Educational revolution
- Sputnik shock # Education policy of the USA
literature
- Wolfgang Lambrecht: German-German reform debates before “Bologna”. The “educational catastrophe ” of the 1960s , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History 4 (2007), pp. 472–477.
