German Educational Reconstruction

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0366 GER
Held at	: Institute of Education   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/sites/ioe ›
Full title	: German Educational Reconstruction
Date(s)	: 1943-1958
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: c 40 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: German Educational Reconstruction
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

German Educational Reconstruction (GER) was a voluntary organisation founded in London in 1943 with the aim of helping German refugee educationists to prepare for their post-war return to Germany. The main consideration was the restructuring of the German school system on 'democratic principles'. After World War Two the emphasis shifted toward promoting Anglo-German relations by acting as an information bureau and means of communication and exchange between British and German educationists. GER undertook a wide variety of activities, including organising conferences, lectures, and study groups; co-operating with other voluntary bodies; arranging visits and youth work; publishing and distributing memoranda, pamphlets and textbooks. Several prominent figures were associated with GER, including Eleanor Rathbone, Sir Ernest Barker, Karl Mannheim, Fritz Borinski, S.H. Wood, Erich Hirsch and Fritz Burchardt. It was wound up in 1958.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of German Educational Reconstruction, 1943-1958, including minutes; correspondence, administrative and policy files; bulletins, reports and memoranda; files on conferences, meetings and group visits; material relating to a wide range of other organisations; and press cuttings and collected publications.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

In 1973 the SSRC awarded a grant to Dr Arthur Hearnden of the Department of Comparative Education at the Institute of Education to catalogue and undertake research into the collection. The reorganisation of the collection was carried out by Miss L.J. Anderson, Research Assistant in the Department of Comparative Education. The work was completed in 1977.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

The entire collection was micofilmed as part of the cataloguing/research project. In 1981 the Institute signed an agreement with a German firm for the publication and sale of this for a period of three years. The Library retains copyright.

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Allied Materials

Related material:

Publications of GER are held by the Institute of Education Library in a Special Collection entitled 'The German Collection'.

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Created 10/29/1999, modified 12/5/2000