1/26/2010. Disciplining Children in 18th & 19th-Cent. Germany

Fairy Tales in the News:  "Corporal Punishment in Schools" + "Harsh Discipline" + Babywise

Film Clips: Blue Angel (Professor Rat enters the classroom)

Lecture: Bourgeois values

Grimms & 19th-Century Enlightened, German, Bourgeois Values:

male gender norms of the early 19th century:

female gender norms:

-negative:

-positive:

In-Class Writing Assignment: List some examples of what A. Miller considers "poisonous pedagogy." Do you agree with the listed German (Protestant!) childraising techniques in general? (Show me that you've read the assignment.)

IV. Lecture:    Disciplining Children in 18th & 19th-Century Germany

-not only Germany, also US, Britain, France, etc.

-illustrations from 19th-century German children's "pedagogical texts" = rhymes learned by heart

-Grimms' stories: ex: "The Stubborn Child," "Mother Trudy"

Tone of Children's Literature in 18th/19th-Century Germany and England

-Ravensburg Song: [tr] model for girls.

-Bible: (Proverbs 30:17).

-Isaac Watts, Divine & Moral Songs (1715): "Obedience to Parents"

Belief in Innate Sinfulness of Children:  cf. John Bunyan's Book for Boys & Girls (1686):

VI. Struwwelpeter:

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