Rosalind M. O. Pritchard is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Ulster with responsibility for training teachers of Modern Languages and of English as a Foreign Language.

"... ungemein ausgewogene und einfühlsame Analyse der Entwicklungen… In seiner Mischung von Literatur- und Fallanalyse ist das Buch zugleich auch ein gutter Kurstext für Graduierten-Kurse.  · German Studies Review"A most commendable work, with sound empirical data and sensitive qualitative analysis."  · Higher Education in Europe

• List of TablesAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. The Fall of the WallThe Berlin WallThe Process of German UnificationThe Law and the New LänderThe East German PsycheChapter 2. Reforming the School StructuresThe GDR’s Unified School SystemUtopia in Sight? GDR Reform Aspirations after the Fall of the WallLegal Constraints on Change after UnificationNew Schools for OldCase Study: Establishment of a New Grammar SchoolThe Demographic DeclineReduction in the School PopulationBrandenburg and the Jena PlanStriving for Institutional SurvivalCompetition between SchoolsProfilingTensions within the School SystemChapter 3. School Life and LearningEducational Practice in the GDRNew BooksNew Curricula and SyllabusesNew Approaches to the Methodology of TeachingPupil Classroom Norms in East GermanyYouth Policy in East GermanyChapter 4. Religious Education, Church Schools and EthicsReligion in a Socialist StateEducation, Young People and the Church under SocialismReligion in the United GermanyChurch SchoolsExemplar of a Church SchoolEthics and Religious Education in State SchoolsLife Skills – Ethics – Religion (‘LER’)Chapter 5. Training for the World of WorkThe GDR Tradition of Vocational EducationalShortcomings in the GDR Model of Vocational EducationIntroduction of the West German Dual SystemEconomic Stringency and Its Impact on the Dual SystemCase Study: The GoldsmithConclusionChapter 6. Renewing the Teaching Profession and Higher EducationTeachers and Their Universities before UnificationThe Students and Student LifeThe WendeRestructuring and ‘Cleansing’ of University and School StaffRestructuring of Higher Education InstitutionsClosure of the Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Educational SciencesChanges in Third-Level Education StructuresA Reformed Teaching ProfessionThe Thorny Issues of Recognition and PayNew Teacher Training StructuresEasterners Learn New School LawCase Study I: Monika and the MiniskirtCase Study II: Verena and the T-ShirtThe AftermathHuman RelationshipsHow Did Students Fare under the New RegimeChange and Its Implications for Women Teachers, Students and AcademicsConclusionChapter 7. In RetrospectAppendix I: Articles on Education and Higher Education and Research from the Unification TreatyAppendix II: A Questionnaire Used to Evaluate Teachers for Political SoundnessGlossaryReferencesIndex

Rosalind M. O. Pritchard is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Ulster with responsibility for training teachers of Modern Languages and of English as a Foreign Language.

"... ungemein ausgewogene und einfühlsame Analyse der Entwicklungen… In seiner Mischung von Literatur- und Fallanalyse ist das Buch zugleich auch ein gutter Kurstext für Graduierten-Kurse.  · German Studies Review"A most commendable work, with sound empirical data and sensitive qualitative analysis."  · Higher Education in Europe

• List of TablesAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. The Fall of the WallThe Berlin WallThe Process of German UnificationThe Law and the New LänderThe East German PsycheChapter 2. Reforming the School StructuresThe GDR’s Unified School SystemUtopia in Sight? GDR Reform Aspirations after the Fall of the WallLegal Constraints on Change after UnificationNew Schools for OldCase Study: Establishment of a New Grammar SchoolThe Demographic DeclineReduction in the School PopulationBrandenburg and the Jena PlanStriving for Institutional SurvivalCompetition between SchoolsProfilingTensions within the School SystemChapter 3. School Life and LearningEducational Practice in the GDRNew BooksNew Curricula and SyllabusesNew Approaches to the Methodology of TeachingPupil Classroom Norms in East GermanyYouth Policy in East GermanyChapter 4. Religious Education, Church Schools and EthicsReligion in a Socialist StateEducation, Young People and the Church under SocialismReligion in the United GermanyChurch SchoolsExemplar of a Church SchoolEthics and Religious Education in State SchoolsLife Skills – Ethics – Religion (‘LER’)Chapter 5. Training for the World of WorkThe GDR Tradition of Vocational EducationalShortcomings in the GDR Model of Vocational EducationIntroduction of the West German Dual SystemEconomic Stringency and Its Impact on the Dual SystemCase Study: The GoldsmithConclusionChapter 6. Renewing the Teaching Profession and Higher EducationTeachers and Their Universities before UnificationThe Students and Student LifeThe WendeRestructuring and ‘Cleansing’ of University and School StaffRestructuring of Higher Education InstitutionsClosure of the Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Educational SciencesChanges in Third-Level Education StructuresA Reformed Teaching ProfessionThe Thorny Issues of Recognition and PayNew Teacher Training StructuresEasterners Learn New School LawCase Study I: Monika and the MiniskirtCase Study II: Verena and the T-ShirtThe AftermathHuman RelationshipsHow Did Students Fare under the New RegimeChange and Its Implications for Women Teachers, Students and AcademicsConclusionChapter 7. In RetrospectAppendix I: Articles on Education and Higher Education and Research from the Unification TreatyAppendix II: A Questionnaire Used to Evaluate Teachers for Political SoundnessGlossaryReferencesIndex

Rosalind M. O. Pritchard is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Ulster with responsibility for training teachers of Modern Languages and of English as a Foreign Language.

"... ungemein ausgewogene und einfühlsame Analyse der Entwicklungen… In seiner Mischung von Literatur- und Fallanalyse ist das Buch zugleich auch ein gutter Kurstext für Graduierten-Kurse.  · German Studies Review"A most commendable work, with sound empirical data and sensitive qualitative analysis."  · Higher Education in Europe

• List of TablesAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. The Fall of the WallThe Berlin WallThe Process of German UnificationThe Law and the New LänderThe East German PsycheChapter 2. Reforming the School StructuresThe GDR’s Unified School SystemUtopia in Sight? GDR Reform Aspirations after the Fall of the WallLegal Constraints on Change after UnificationNew Schools for OldCase Study: Establishment of a New Grammar SchoolThe Demographic DeclineReduction in the School PopulationBrandenburg and the Jena PlanStriving for Institutional SurvivalCompetition between SchoolsProfilingTensions within the School SystemChapter 3. School Life and LearningEducational Practice in the GDRNew BooksNew Curricula and SyllabusesNew Approaches to the Methodology of TeachingPupil Classroom Norms in East GermanyYouth Policy in East GermanyChapter 4. Religious Education, Church Schools and EthicsReligion in a Socialist StateEducation, Young People and the Church under SocialismReligion in the United GermanyChurch SchoolsExemplar of a Church SchoolEthics and Religious Education in State SchoolsLife Skills – Ethics – Religion (‘LER’)Chapter 5. Training for the World of WorkThe GDR Tradition of Vocational EducationalShortcomings in the GDR Model of Vocational EducationIntroduction of the West German Dual SystemEconomic Stringency and Its Impact on the Dual SystemCase Study: The GoldsmithConclusionChapter 6. Renewing the Teaching Profession and Higher EducationTeachers and Their Universities before UnificationThe Students and Student LifeThe WendeRestructuring and ‘Cleansing’ of University and School StaffRestructuring of Higher Education InstitutionsClosure of the Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Educational SciencesChanges in Third-Level Education StructuresA Reformed Teaching ProfessionThe Thorny Issues of Recognition and PayNew Teacher Training StructuresEasterners Learn New School LawCase Study I: Monika and the MiniskirtCase Study II: Verena and the T-ShirtThe AftermathHuman RelationshipsHow Did Students Fare under the New RegimeChange and Its Implications for Women Teachers, Students and AcademicsConclusionChapter 7. In RetrospectAppendix I: Articles on Education and Higher Education and Research from the Unification TreatyAppendix II: A Questionnaire Used to Evaluate Teachers for Political SoundnessGlossaryReferencesIndex