The crucifixion of the mind of youth': the responses of British teachers to education in the Third Reich.

青年思想的受难：英国教师对第三帝国教育的反应。

• 批准号: 2592882
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2592882
• 关键词: crucifixion; mind; youth; responses; British

My project explores the responses of the British teaching profession to the development of German school Education under the Nazi dictatorship. The radical changes brought about by the Nazi regime as it warped the German education system to become a tool in the dissemination of Nazi ideology were viewed with alarm internationally, where the German education system had been held in high regard prior to the Nazi seizure of power. Analysing the responses of teaching organisations, individuals and émigré networks will enable an assessment of the sources of information about Nazi schooling that reached Britain, an evaluation of British teachers' diagnoses of the impact of Nazified schooling on German teachers and pupils, and an examination of how British teachers' own preoccupations with militarism, propaganda and the politicisation of classroom education informed their responses to the situation in Germany.The thesis will also examine the variety of practical responses undertaken by these actors to the situation in Germany, ranging from raising public awareness to providing practical support for teachers suffering persecution in Nazi Germany or arriving as refugees in Britain. These activities will be placed in the context of wider transnational antifascist activism and pre-existing professional networking, and the sometimes-mixed motives and conflicting agendas involved in mobilising British teachers to respond to the situation in German schools will be explored. Through these responses, the thesis will ask how far the view from Britain of German schooling influenced wartime discussion and decisions regarding post-war educational reconstruction in the face of what one academic described as 'the crucifixion of the mind of youth by ruthless and ingenious tyranny' (Lascelles Abercrombie, 1935).

我的项目探讨了在纳粹独裁统治下，英国教学行业对德国学校教育发展的反应。纳粹政权将德国教育系统扭曲为传播纳粹意识形态的工具，由此带来的剧烈变化引起了国际社会的警惕，在纳粹掌权之前，德国教育系统一直受到高度重视。分析教学组织、个人和移民网络的反应，可以评估到达英国的纳粹学校教育的信息来源，评估英国教师对纳粹学校教育对德国教师和学生的影响的诊断，并检查英国教师对军国主义、宣传和课堂教育政治化的关注如何影响他们对德国情况的反应。本文还将研究这些行动者对德国局势所采取的各种实际反应，从提高公众意识到为在纳粹德国遭受迫害的教师或作为难民抵达英国提供实际支持。这些活动将被置于更广泛的跨国反法西斯行动主义和现有的专业网络的背景下，并将探讨动员英国教师对德国学校的情况作出反应的有时混合的动机和冲突的议程。通过这些回应，本文将询问，面对一位学者所描述的“残酷而巧妙的暴政将年轻人的思想钉在十字架上”（Lascelles Abercrombie, 1935），英国对德国教育的看法在多大程度上影响了战时的讨论和战后教育重建的决定。