Pedagogy, as conscious companion to education, is influenced by cultural context, social constellation und biographical fortune. This consciousness has developed in to various types of expression. They reach from examples and tractates, novelist forms and programmatic essays to the systematic works of the older and current theory of education. The two volumes interpret the great works of pedagogic literature's contemporary meaning as well as the effects of the key texts for the development of pedagogic thinking.

Prof. Prange taught general pedagogy at the university of Tübingen.