Society and Social Justice: Problems of Political Education in West Germany

Autor:	Siegfried George
Rok vydání:	1981
Předmět:	Constitution media_common.quotation_subject World War II Welfare state Social studies language.human_language German Scholarship Politics Political economy Political science language Comparative education Social science media_common
Zdroj:	Teaching Political Science. 8:281-296
ISSN:	0092-2013
DOI:	10.1080/00922013.1981.11000238
Popis:	The problems of social justice in West Germany have to be seen within the historical experience of Nazism, the economic disaster after World War II, and the successful development of the economy and the welfare state since 1949. The West German constitution states the public obligation to bring about social justice. This constitutional basis and the development of the social sciences in West Germany since 1950 supported new concepts of teaching social studies. The “critical method” of the so-called Frankfurt School led to a widespread critique of the “economic miracle.” This article exemplifies its theses by referring to various textbooks and recent empirical studies on the political attitudes of students in West Germany. It briefly explains the position of professors in West German universities and points to a change of the traditional understanding of scholarship toward the awareness of more political responsibility.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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