Herbst, Jurgen

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HERBST, Jurgen

HERBST, Jurgen. American (born Germany), b. 1928. Genres: Education, History, Autobiography/Memoirs. Career: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Associate Professor, 1958-66; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and of History, 1966-94, Professor Emeritus, 1994-. Publications: The German Historical School in American Scholarship, 1965, 1972; The History of American Education, 1973; From Crisis to Crisis: American College Government, 1639-1819, 1982; And Sadly Teach: Teacher Education and Professionalization in American Culture, 1989; The Once and Future School: Three Hundred and Fifty Years of American Secondary Education, 1996; Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood among the Nazis, 1999. EDITOR: Josiah Strong, Our Country, 1963; (with G. Genovesi, B.B. Gundem, M. Heinemann, T. Harbo, and T. Sirevag), History of Elementary School Teaching and Curriculum, International Series for the History of Education, vol. 1, 1990; (with F-P Hager, M. Depaepe, M. Heinemann, and R. Lowe), Aspects of Antiquity in the History of Education, International Series for History of Education, vol. 3, 1992; (with H. Geitz and J. Heideking) German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917, 1995; (with J. Heideking and M. Depaepe) Mutual Influences on Education: Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century, 1997. Address: 321 Pine Ridge Loop, Durango, CO 81301-7510, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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