Education And Fascism: Political Identity And Social Education In Nazi Germany Political Identity And Social Education In Nazi Germany

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""1 Political Culture and Education in Germany""; ""2 Volk Community: Identity Formation and Social Practice""; ""3 National-Socialist Youth Policy and the Labour Service: The Work Camp as an Instrument of Social Discipline""; ""4 Totalizing of Experience: Educational Camps""; ""5 Youth Welfare, Social Crisis and Political Reaction: Correctional Education in the Final Phase of the Weimar Republic""; ""6 Emancipation or Social Incorporation: Girls in the Bund Deutscher MÃ?del"" Can We Learn From History? More Specifically, Have We Learned From The Social History Of Nazi Germany And Its Effects On People Living Today? In Seeking Answers To These Questions The Articles In This Collection Are Concerned With Unravelling And Analysing The Social Framework Of Nazism. Key To Understanding That Framework Is The Relationship Between Identity-formation, Political Culture And Pedagogic Activities. In This Context, The Question Of The Causes Of Nazism And Of Its Instigators, Of Its Political And Pedagogic Traditions, Orientations, Classes And Social Milieu, Takes On A Special Meaning In Relation To The Expansion And Maintenance Of Nazi Domination. Of Particular Importance Is The Mediation Between Terrorist Domination And An Everyday Life Suggestive Of Normality. The Authors Suggest That The Formative Capture Of All Members Of This Society Succeeded Essentially Through An 'education Toward Folk Community'. When The Ideology Of Folk Community Encourages Processes Of Social Integration And Exclusion, When It Is A Matter Of 'human Selection', When It Concerns Culprits, Victims And Accomplices, The Decisive Question Becomes: How Can An Ideology Mediated By Pedagogic Practices Operate So Effectively That It Apparently Provided Many In Nazi Germany With A Functioning' Identity?--back Cover. Political Culture And Education In Germany / Heinz Sünker -- Volk Community : Identity Formation And Social Practice / Heinz Sünker And Hans-uwe Otto -- National-socialist Youth Policy And The Labour Service : The Work Camp As An Instrument Of Social Discipline / Peter Dudek -- Totalizing Of Experience : Educational Camps / Jürgen Schiedeck And Martin Stahlmann -- Youth Welfare, Social Crisis, And Political Reaction : Correctional Education In The Final Phase Of The Weimar Republic / Elizabeth Harvey -- Emancipation Or Social Incorporation : Girls In The Bund Deutscher Mädel / Dagmar Reese -- Why Did Social Workers Accept The New Order? / Stefan Schnurr -- Social Work As Social Education / Heinz Sünker And Hans-uwe Otto -- After Auschwitz : The Quest For Democratic Education / Heinz Sünker. Edited By Heinz Sünker And Hans-uwe Otto. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

This text sets out to challenge the reader by posing the question: can we learn from history? More particularly, can we learn from social history and the effects on people living today after National Socialism - the German form of fascism?; Of crucial significance, the authors show how social education in all areas of national socialist society operated and how it functioned in terms of an interest in political formation and social discipline. What is clear is an attempt at complete social control, an unceasing incorporation of the whole lives of all people. At the centre of all these practices stood a process that was meant to lead to a particular formation of identity and ideology. The success of National Socialism in achieving its objectives must today cause us to investigate the relationship between identity and formation, political culture and pedagogic activity.

""Cover"" ""Half Title"" ""Title Page"" ""Copyright Page"" ""Table of Contents"" ""Foreword"" ""1 Political Culture and Education in Germany"" ""2 Volk Community: Identity Formation and Social Practice"" ""3 National-Socialist Youth Policy and the Labour Service: The Work Camp as an Instrument of Social Discipline"" ""4 Totalizing of Experience: Educational Camps"" ""5 Youth Welfare, Social Crisis and Political Reaction: Correctional Education in the Final Phase of the Weimar Republic"" ""6 Emancipation or Social Incorporation: Girls in the Bund Deutscher MÃ?del"" ""7 Why Did Social Workers Accept the New Order?""""8 Social Work as Social Education"" ""9 After Auschwitz: The Quest for Democratic Education"" ""Notes on Contributors"" ""Index""