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Overview of the History of Childhood in the Children's Home Available Digitally

The catalogue on the German history of childhood in the home is now available digitally for teaching and study and offers a compact and richly illustrated overview of the history of institutional education in Germany on over 100 pages.

Titelbild der Veröffentlichung "Geschichte der Kindheit im Heim in Deutschland seit 1870" mit Schwarzweißfoto von Kindern mit Frau beim Essen an einem Tisch
© Fachhochschule Potsdam

From the beginnings of state welfare in the German Empire, the catalogue for the exhibition "Geschichte der Kindheit im Heim" traces an arc from the reformist attempts at home education in the 1920s, the situation of welfare education in the Nazi era to home education in West and East Germany.

The publication from 2018 was created as part of the exhibition of the same name, which was presented in 2017 as a cooperation project between the "Großes Waisenhaus zu Potsdam" Foundation, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and the Babelsberg Film University under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Manfred Kappeler and Prof. Dr. Sabine Hering.

The digitised version, which is now accessible via the FHP university library, offers a compact and richly illustrated overview about the history of home education in Germany on over 100 pages.

Geschichte der Kindheit im Heim in Deutschland seit 1870

Authors:

Christoph Hamann, Sabine Hering, Manfred Kappeler, Ursula von Keitz, Franziska von Nordheim, Alexandra Schmidt-Wenzel, René Schreiter