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Herbart's Pedagogical Seminar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Harold B. Dunkel
Harold B. Dunkel*
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University of Chicago
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The strange course taken by the fame of Johann Friedrich Herbart is a fascinating tale. At his death in 1841 he had few disciples and very little influence. Then, twenty years later, Ziller, largely through his book, Foundation for the Doctrine of Educative Instruction, revived interest in Herbart and made Herbartianism an international educational movement. As such it came to the United States about 1890 as Charles DeGarmo and the McMurry brothers made it into the best organized and most vocal educational force of the period. The National Herbart Society for the Scientific Study of Teaching was organized in 1895. Then five short years later the Herbart Society died, and after 1905 literature on Herbart or Herbartianism scarcely appeared in the United States. At present, to most educators Herbart is little more than a name, vaguely associated with catch-phrases like “the five steps” or the “apperceptive mass” or the “threshhold of consciousness.”

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Spring 1967 , pp. 93 - 101
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Copyright © 1967 History of Education Quarterly 

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Notes

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