'Folk High School' or 'Voluntary Labour Camp'? The Development of Residential Adult Education in Germany during the 1920s and early 1930s

The workers, who used to come to the Heim for a four-month course, showed in their faces and their attitudes that they had high expectations. The unemployed see it all as a last sceptical effort which they regard with suspicion and the expectation of new disappointment...When the teacher cannot conv...

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Published inStudies in the education of adults Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 121 - 135
Main Author Hake, Barry J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Leicester, U.K Routledge 01.10.1993
National Institute of Adult Education
Subjects
Adult Education
Cultural Education
Deutschland
Erwachsenenbildung
Folk Schools
Foreign Countries
Germany
Geschichte (Histor)
Heimvolkshochschule
Labor Camps
Residential Programs
Volkshochschule
Weimarer Republik
Young Adults
Germany
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Summary:The workers, who used to come to the Heim for a four-month course, showed in their faces and their attitudes that they had high expectations. The unemployed see it all as a last sceptical effort which they regard with suspicion and the expectation of new disappointment...When the teacher cannot convince them that the world outside is doing everything possible to find ways of putting an end to unemployment, then the work in the Heim is a laughable pretence. Think about this, you politicians. (Dr Eduard Weitsch, Arbeiterheim Dreissigacker, 1930)
ISSN:0266-0830
1478-9833
DOI:10.1080/02660830.1993.11730586