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Benjamin Franklin, one of the key thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment, was also an exceptionally gifted educational writer who drafted the constitution of the first American university, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His educational writings ought to be considered as key texts of modern pedagogical thought. Franklin was also genuinely interested in the education of German immigrants in Pennsylvania. The first bilingual (German-English) college of the United States, Franklin College Lancaster, was named after him. The seminar – held in English – offers a close reading of Franklin’s educational treatises and explores the diverse and multilingual worlds of learning in 18th century colonial Pennsylvania, later dubbed the keystone state of the United States.
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Benjamin Franklin on Edcuation, hg. v. John Hardin Best, New York 1962; “The Good Education of Youth”. Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin, hg. v. John Pollack, Philadelphia 2009. |
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