“By educators for educators”: an introduction to a GDR education television project for teachers (1970–1982)
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Katja Koch [1] ; Kristina Koebe [1]
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[1] University of Rostock
University of Rostock
Kreisfreie Stadt Rostock, Alemania
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- Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 59, Nº. 6, 2023, págs. 1288-1308
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The GDR series “Von Pädagogen für Pädagogen” (“By Educators for Educators”), which addressed GDR educators, was established in 1970 and then broadcast in this form for 13 years at approximately monthly intervals. The article presented here locates the programme within the GDR’s continuing education landscape and endeavours to reconstruct the origins and further development of the programme. It offers a valuable insight into the GDR’s education and training system, as the production of the programme took place in a spirit of cooperation, but also against a background of tension between the Ministry of National Education, the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (APW), the Central Institute for Continuing Education (ZIW), and the GDR schools (in their function as both co-producers and recipients). It illustrates that the format was strongly influenced by ministerial guidelines but at the same time had to face the judgement of the teachers regarding its practical relevance in order to fulfil the intended function: a continuing education beyond the organised events. It is furthermore shown that the two institutions entrusted with the organisation (first the APW, then the ZIW) contributed their own perspectives and thus cannot be reduced to the role of executors of ministry wishes. The result of the cooperation was a series of broadcasts that presented a – scientifically based – ideal image of GDR education, but at the same time also used the feedback of practitioners for optimisation and can thus be classified as documentation of educational ideals that were accepted (but not necessarily implemented) through practice.
