NOTES AND REFERENCES
- This paper has been written with implicit (and therefore not specified) reference to a great number of books and papers, the contents of which have provided the author with information and arguments. He is deeply indebted to his colleagues for all the support he has been able to gain from reading their works
- Concerning the appraisal of the recent state of education in the Federal Republic of Germany the following two books have proved to be highly useful sources: Führ, Christoph (1979) Education and Teaching in the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn‐Bad Godesberg: Inter Nationes (Munich, Carl Hansler Verlag); and Das Bildungswesen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ein Überblick für Eltern, Lehrer, Schüler. Authors: a working group at the Max Planck Institute for Educational Research in (West) Berlin. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1979 (rororo 7292)
- Concerning the inter‐relationship between education in the Federal Republic of Germany and corresponding world‐wide trends the author is particularly indebted to the studies published in the Jubilee Number of International Review of Education, Vol. 25, Nos. 2‐3, 1979; above all he wants to mention the stimulating article by Arthur Gillette: Structural changes in education since 1954: a slow‐motion explosion (pp. 267‐296)