Pestalozzi and the Educationalization of the World [Hardcover]

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi transformed education theory and practice worldwide. Daniel Tr?hler connects Pestalozzi's work to its context in Europe's late 18th- and early 19th-century republican movement, offering readers a way to understand the sociopolitical significance of education and its central role in the development of modern societies.1. The Educationalization of Social Problems Around 1800 2. Zurich Around 1750: Economic and Cultural Boom and Revolutionary Activities 3. The Development and Early Fate of a Republican Revolutionary 4. The Christian Republic, Enlightenment, and Coercive Education 5. The American and the French Republics, German Idealism, and the Principle of Inwardness 6. The Helvetic Republic and the Discovery of 'the Method' 7. Propaganda and Institutional Success 8. European Demands for New Education: Political, National, Private 9. Pestalozzi's Charisma, a Guarantee of Success and a Problem 10. Public Critique, Restoration, Pestalozzi's Lonesome End, and the Beginning of Modern Mass Education 11. The Educationalized World and the Internationalization of the Cult of Pestalozzi 12. Pestalozzi, or an Ambiguous Legacy in Education

This book provides a brief and authoritative introduction to the extraordinary career of Johan Heinrich Pestalozzi, the Swiss educator who was the rock star of educational reform at the turn of the 19th century. Its strengths are many. It is based on a rich array of new materials that were discovered, analyzed, and published by scholars at the Pestalozzian Institute in Zurich, which was long headed by the author. It takes an appreciative but critical view of Pestalozzi, noting that his skills as a self-promoter were even greater than his skills as an educator. It connects the Pestalozzi phenomenon with the new literature on the way in which the rise of schooling in the 19th century has led to the educationalization of modern society. And its author, Daniel Tr?hler as the leading expert on Pestalozzi and a mló