Turkish History Education Journal (May 2022)
Translation: History (Geschichte)
Abstract
J.F. Herbart is a philosopher whose ideas were very influential in many countries, including the USA, until the first quarter of the 20th century, in fields such as educational sciences, teaching methods, social psychology, teacher training, and he transferred the German spirit beyond the continents with his works on education. His writings on history teaching present the approaches of German teachers in the early 19th century as well as his own opinions. In the comments of the leading American Herbartian Charles De Garmo, the differences between German and American history teaching, the equivalents of the approaches in German education in American education, and the differences between the narrative and textbook method of teaching were described. It proposes two different approaches to history teaching by introducing different aspects of these methods. De Garmo was awarded his doctorate from the Herbartians in Germany. As the first president of the "National Herbart Society for the Scientific Study of Education", organized in 1895 "to study and investigate and discuss important problems of education", he pioneered the dissemination of Herbart's ideas in the USA. The original text of this article, which belongs to Johann Friedrich Herbart, includes the part about history teaching of his famous book "Umriß pädagogischer Vorlesungen", published in 1835, on the teaching of different branches. Kehrbach's facsimile was taken as the basis for this part of the translation from German to Turkish. In Herbart's text, the numbering in this edition is followed and added at the end of the paragraphs. The paragraphs given in italics in the sub-texts in addition to the translation presented are the translations of De Garmo’s comments added to the English translation of this Herbart’s book in 1904 under the name "Outlines of Educational Doctrine" by Alexis F. Lange. In this respect, Herbart's own writings were translated from the German original version and De Garmo's comments were translated from his English script.
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