1st Edition

J A Comenius and the Concept of Universal Education

By John Edward Sadler Copyright 1966
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1966, this volume reappraises the educational philosophy of Comenius. Until recently the attention given to Comenius and his work concentrated on a narrow interpretation of his pedagogy which played down his pansophic theory. In the second half of the nineteenth century Germany led the way in pedagogical study and Comenius was widely accepted as having laid the foundations... Read more
Chapters include: The concept of the good man The concept of encyclopaedic knowledge The concept of the good society The concept of didactic process Aspects of universal education Wisdom Language Reform Theory and practice of education Instruments of Universal education Schools Teachers Books

Biography

John Edward Sadler