For full functionality of ResearchGate it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Project log. References Hein Retter. Aug Jul The reactions to Petersen's publications, which Hitler and the Third Reich regard as positive, are very widespread internationally. The criticism from the USA is inevitable, but the criticism of researchers and pedagogues from European countries, who simply no longer mention Petersen, but remain silent, is remarkable - about Petersen's Jenaplan and his idea of the New European Educational Movement, which was discussed before This also depended on existing or non-existing personal relationships with Petersen, but also on political boundary conditions.
In this way, it can be explained that Petersen became an honorary doctor of the University of Athens, and that he was granted a lecture trip to South Africa, the apartheid state.
In contrast to criticism from Switzerland, the Anglo-American linguistic area and Scandinavia, Petersen's pedagogy continued to attract interest in Eastern Europe, the Baltic states and Southeastern Europe.
This interest is particularly pronounced in two countries, Bulgaria and Poland. Visits by foreign teachers to Jena from these countries, as well as foreign students who received their doctorates from Petersen, are connected with this. Within Germany, the reaction to Petersen was - understandably - ambivalent. That is to put it mildly: neither the Reich Ministry of Education in Berlin nor the school department of the Thuringian Ministry of Education in Weimar supports Petersen - on the contrary: the decree prohibiting the further spread of the Jenaplan came from Berlin at the beginning of February.
In Thuringia, however, Petersen and his "Erziehhungswissenschaftliche Anstalt" Educational Science Institution were dismissed from their involvement in teacher training; the entire elementary school teacher training had been transferred to the "Pedagogical Institute" in Jena.
