Classical Roots of Modern Education

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

- provide students with basic knowledge of ancient and mediaeval education principles

- provide students with basic knowledge of ancient and mediaeval educational practices

- teach students to understand the significance of the influence of ancient and mediaeval education on the modern education in the Western culture.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

History of the ancient world

 

History of the ancient world – continued

 

Homer and Sparta

 

Education in classical Athens

 

Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates on education.

 

Schools in ancient Greece

 

Roman education.

 

Christianity and Greco-Roman culture.

 

Christianity and Greco-Roman culture – continued.

 

Seven liberal arts.

 

Monastic schools and the role of scriptoria.

 

Scholastic education.

 

Medieval university.

 

Medieval university – continued.

 

Final test.

Reading list

Gutek, G.L., A History of the Western Educational Experience, New York 1994.

Thompson, M.M. The history of education, New York 1959.

McCormick, P.J., Pace, E.A. History of education, Washington 1957.

Yun Lee Too, Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity, Boston 2001.

McCormick P. J., Education of the laity in the early middle ages, Washington 1912 (https://archive.org/details/educationoflait00mcco).

Graves F.P., A Student’s History of Education, New York 1922 (Part I, II) (https://archive.org/details/astudentshistor03gravgoog).