Transformation and Education in the Literature of the GDR - 9781571139559

Transformation and Education in the Literature of the GDRAuthor(s): Jean E. Conacher\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781571139559, 978-1571139559\nSynopsis\nThis book explores how writers adhered to, played with, and subverted the formulaic precepts of educational transformation in the German Democratic Republic.\n\nPerhaps never before has a state emphasized education to citizenship more than in the new nation founded in 1949 as the German Democratic Republic. For forty years, educational and cultural policy played a pivotal role in effortsto build and sustain a socialist state on German soil. Party and state held teachers and writers responsible for demonstrating the superiority of socialism, infusing pupils and readers with a commitment to the emerging state, andproviding persuasive role models of der neue Mensch each was challenged to become.\n Utilizing an innovative triangular framework, this book demon.