The process of formation of the modern German and Hungarian school system and elementary school teacher training in Germany and Hungary –a comparison Cover Image

Der Entstehungsprozess des modernen deutschen und ungarischen Schulwesens und Volksschullehrerausbildung in Deutschland und Ungarn – ein Vergleich
The process of formation of the modern German and Hungarian school system and elementary school teacher training in Germany and Hungary –a comparison

Author(s): Krisztina Kovács
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu
Keywords: modernization; institutionalization; elementary school; elementary teacher education; comparison

Summary/Abstract: It is the aim of the study to show the prehistory and the unfolding of the modern German and Hungarian school system and elementary school teacher education until the end of the Second World War in Germany and Hungary. The study reaches far back into the history of elementary school and presents an institutional development process taking into account the social and institutional historical context. The following work examines the Hungarian characteristics of the professionalization of elementary school teachers in comparison to the Prussian model and the innovations that took place in the course of the modernization of the school system. After that, only the most important milestones in the process of institutionalization in German and Hungarian elementary folk education and elementary school teacher education are presented.

  • Issue Year: 14/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 129-143
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English, German