Basedow His Educational Work and Principles (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Ossian Herbert Lang

9780267162734: Basedow His Educational Work and Principles (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0267162731 ISBN 13: 9780267162734

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Explore the life and ideas of a pioneering education reformer and how his work reshaped schools.

Basedow: His Educational Work and Principles is a focused look at the life of John Bernard Basedow and the core ideas behind his school reform. Drawing on his early teaching experiments, the book explains how he connected happiness, conversation, and play with learning, aiming to transform education from the ground up. It traces how Basedow built a practical system that valued natural development, character formation, and teacher training as keys to progress.

The author presents Basedow’s influence as part of a larger tradition, linking his approach to earlier thinkers while showing how his methods brought about broad changes in teaching and schooling. The text highlights practical methods—like learning through real-life activity, physical training, and direct engagement with pupils—that helped give students more agency and joy in learning.

Insight into Basedow’s life, reforms, and the motivations behind his educational experiments
Explanation of his key principles, including happiness as a legitimate aim of education
Described methods that used conversation, play, and physical activity to teach
Context for how his ideas relate to later progress in the science of education

Ideal for teachers, student educators, and readers interested in the history of educational reform.

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