Die Geburt der Pädagogik aus dem Geist der Emigration: Jugend und soziale Arbeit zwischen Nationalsozialismus und demokratischem Neubeginn

Abstract

in English Starting in 1942, a hand-picked group of scholars in the US researched developments the guidance of developed psychoanalytical and group dynamic concepts in an attempt to explain the psychological and pedagogical origins of National Socialism, while at the same time trying to establish solutions for a future, peaceful Europe. Bearing in mind such premises, this contribution attempts to: a) establish the part which generational models of the interbel-lum years played for the subsequent rise of National Socialism; b) discover the practical consequences of politics defined by social sciences; c) identify the mental and institutional principles of social sciences as far as they affected education and culture during the reconstruction in the post-war years; d) ascertain whether the specific experience of escape, expulsion, emigration, as well as the confrontation with US society, generated a scholarly profile among emigrants apart from and beyond European traditions.