General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | Humanist Texts on Education |
| Language | English |
| Module lecturer | prof. zw. dr hab. Piotr Urbański |
| Lecturer's email | urbanski@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | Professor |
| Faculty | Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology |
| Semester | 2025/2026 (winter) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 4 |
| USOS code | 03-AP-HToE |
Timetable
Module aim (aims)
To provide students with basic knowledge of early modern education principles
To provide students with basic knowledge of early modern educational practices
To teach students to understand the significance of the influence of early modern education on the modern education in the Western culture.
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
General knowledge of Humanism
Syllabus
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Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century; Transition from Medieval Curriculm to Educating the Renaissance Man |
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The Renaissance and Humanist Thinking; Humanism and Education in Italy |
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Humanist Educational Treatises |
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The Renaissance Curriculum; Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance |
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Luther and Melanchthon: The Reformation and Educational Change in Germany; Sturm and Gymnasium |
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Criticism of Renaissance Education: Montaigne |
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The Jesuits and their Ratio Studiorum |
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Other Educational Aspects of Counter-Reformation Education |
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The Rise of Universities: Medieval Tradition (History, Students, their Numbers and Disciplines, Privileges of Universities, Faculties) |
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The Rise of Universities: University Studies and Condition of Graduation; Universities in Early Modern Europe |
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Debates about Education in the 16th and 17th centuries: Comenius, Locke |
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Peregrinatio Academica – grand tour. Humanist Academies and Societies |
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Educational Ideas Before and After Rousseau |
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Women’s Education in Early Modern Europe |
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Postscript: A Defense of Literary Humanism by Richard Gaskin. Test |
Reading list
Main manual: Denis Lawton and Peter Gordon, A History of Western Educational Ideas, Woburn Press: London 2002.Further reading:Gutek, G.L., A History of the Western Educational Experience, New York 1994.Older but still valuable manuals:William Boyd. The History of Western Education, London 1947.Ellwood P. Cubberley, The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization, Houghton Mifflin Company 1920.Levi Seeley, History of Education, American Book Company 1899.