David Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK.

This book brings together the work of esteemed author Professor David Phillips in one authoritative volume. Including key chapters on education in Germany from the last three decades, topics range from historical studies of universities and schools, through detailed research on the role of the British in reconstructing education in Germany after 1945, to education in post-Unification Germany. Together, the body of work draws on a multitude of primary sources and constitutes a comprehensive analysis of educational provision in Germany over a long historical period. In addition to 18 chapters spanning Phillips' research from 1981 to 2012, the book includes a new introduction and conclusion, bringing his ideas together and demonstrating their continuing relevance to the field.

Introduction: Education in Germany and comparative studies. Part 1: Comparing Germany The German Universities: Citadels of Freedom or Bastions of Rection?. Beyond Travellers' Tales: Some Nineteenth-Century British Commentators on Education in Germany Part 2: Occupied Germany British Educational Policy in Occupied Germany: Some Problems and Paradoxes in the Control of Schools and Universities. The Re-opening of Universities in the British Zone: The Problem of Nationalism and Student Admissions. War-time Planning for the "Re-education" of Germany: Professor E.R. Dodds and the German Universities. Lindsay and the German Universities: An Oxford Contribution to the Post-war Reform Debate. British University Officers in Germany after the War. Helena Deneke and the Women of Germany: A Note on Post-War Reconstruction. Part 3: Lessons from Germany? Learning from Elsewhere in Education: Some Perennial Problems Revisited with Reference to British Interest in Germany. Lessons from Germany? The Case of German Secondary Schools. Learning from the German Model Part 4: Post-Unification Germany Educational Developments in the New Germany. The Wissenschaftsrat and the Investigation of Teacher Education in the Former German Democratic Republic, 1991: A Personal Account. Reconstructing Education in Germany: Some Similarities and Contrasts in the Post-War and Post-Unification Rethinking in Educational Provision.