Session Information
17 SES 13 A, Capitalist Modernity and Predicaments of Urban Childhood: Some Romantic Responses (1870-1970)
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Contribution
Within the movement of 1968 anti-authoritarian kindergartens, the so-called kinderläden, were founded first in Frankfurt and Berlin, followed by other university cities. They often were organized in close relation to pedagogical, sociological and psychological institutes of universities. The paper analyses why academic parents and actors of the left-wing milieu were engaged in those self-helping organizations and why they were interested in preschool and educational questions. One target of their activities was to create and to gain spaces for children, strongly connected with new types of living, based on a critical view of the traditional family. But the pedagogical programmes of the kinderläden in Frankfurt and Berlin were different. While their educational concepts in Berlin were more dogmatic, the concepts in Frankfurt were more liberal und pragmatic. They were linked to the ideas of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and to the principles of psychoanalyses. The paper will show that those differences in critical pedagogical programmes were depending from different political atmospheres, groups and debates in both of the cities. So, urban education in the left-wing and alternative milieu around 1970 was different in different cities.
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