Studium Generale in the FRG after 1945

近年来，通用学院在学术领域经历了复兴。该研究项目旨在调查自1945年以来，在德意志联邦共和国的知识和教育史上，与大学的转变思想和社会功能有关的变化。在继续教育研究的框架内分析大学的一般任务和职业任务，是与转变大学观念和形态的教育历史考察和教育理论探讨相联系的。该研究项目基于四个历史阶段：第二次世界大战后的通用研究中心（1945年至1964年）、大学扩展和民主化时期的通用研究中心（1964年至1977年）、大众大学的通用研究中心（1977年至1993年）和博洛尼亚改革后的通用研究中心（1993年至2015年）。这些停顿将在考虑三个维度或层次之间的紧张关系时加以审查：观念；教育政策职位；以及通用研究中心的制度或课程转型。方法论是由这三个维度来定义的，并相应地决定了各自历史来源的选择。就机构层面的项目分析而言，考试的材料包括大学课程和活动日历上的通用研究中心的公告文本。来自学术机构和会议的文章为正当性和合法性层面的概念历史讨论提供了材料。关于高等教育改革和发展的专家报告、决议和建议将作为研究课题的政治一级的方法学参考，对其内容进行分析。以联邦州巴登-符腾堡州和北莱茵-威斯特伐利亚州为重点的典型大学将成为研究对象。将在相应的知识历史背景下分析思想、合法化形式和制度实践。根据基本假设，这三个维度之间的关系既不是因果关系，也不是层次结构，而是通过一种导致语义转移的翻译模式来实现的。同样，该研究项目也意味着对近期大学历史上对通用学堂的杰出教育史研究的贡献，以及对相应的认识论转换和语义转换的检查。因此，该研究项目对古典、现代和未来形式的大学职责和功能的社会政治和科学政治话语做出了重大贡献。

In recent years, the Studium Generale has experienced a renaissance in the academic landscape. The research project aims at an investigation in terms of knowledge- and educational history of the changes that the Studium Generale have undergone in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1945 in connection with the transforming idea and the societal function of universities. Analysing general and vocational tasks of universities within the frame of a perspective of continuing education research is a correlate to the education-historical examination and education-theoretical discussion on transforming the idea and shape of the university.The research project is based on four historical phases: Studium Generale after World War II (1945 to 1964), Studium Generale in the period of the extension and democratisation of universities (1964 to 1977), Studium Generale at mass universities (1977 to 1993), and Studium Generale after the Bologna-Reform (1993 to 2015). These caesuras will be examined in consideration of the tense relationship between three dimensions, or levels: the idea; positions in education policy; and the institutional, or curricular transformation of the Studium Generale.The methodological approach is defined by these three dimensions and correspondingly determines the choice of the respective historical sources. The material for the examination in terms of program-analysis on the institutional level consists of announcement-texts to a Studium Generale in course-and-event-calendars of universities. Articles from academic bodies and conferences provide the material for a concept-historical discussion on the level of justification and legitimacy. Expert reports, resolutions and recommendations on higher education reform and development in their function as methodological references to a political level of the research topic will be analysed on their content. An exemplary selection of universities that focuses on the federal states Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia will be subject of the study. Ideas, forms of legitimation, and institutional practices will be analysed in the corresponding knowledge-historical context. According to the underlying assumption, the relation between these three dimensions is neither causal nor hierarchically structured but rather implemented by a translational modality which leads to semantic shifts.The research project is likewise meant as a contribution to an outstanding education-historical research on the Studium Generale in recent university history, as well as an examination of the corresponding epistemological transformations and semantic shifts. Thereby, the research project makes a major contribution to a socio-political and scientific-political discourse on the duties and functions of universities in their classical modern as well as in their future form.