Ein deutsch-amerikanisches Netzwerk durch Briefe nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Ein Versuch und sein Scheitern

• Autores: Klaus-Peter Horn
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 43, Nº. 2, 2007 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Networking and the History of Education / coord. por Christoph Lüth; Eckhardt Fuchs (dir.)), págs. 283-294
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article discusses the attempt to establish an American¿German network of educational scientists and philosophers, and its failure after the end of the Second World War. The German emigrant Walter Fales (alias Walter Feilchenfeld) tried to initiate a correspondence between leading German and American authors in the pedagogical field in 1946 and 1947. This communication was accompanied by an American journal project, which failed because of lack of money, and book sendings to Germany. The aim was a network of German and American figures in the field of educational research and theory to transfer American democratic ideas, e.g. Pragmatism, to Germany. Fales¿s initiative involved such persons as John Dewey on one side, and Eduard Spranger and Herman Nohl on the other. After some letters the Germans showed little interest in such an exchange but the books were welcomed. Besides the complaints about the distressing everyday life in a destroyed Germany the Germans felt domineered by the Americans. With only one node (Fales) the initiated American¿German network lacked the power to bind the two existing (German and American) networks together.