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Studies in the History of Educational Theory Vol 1 (RLE Edu H): Nature and Artifice, 1350-1765 book cover

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Studies in the History of Educational Theory Vol 1 (RLE Edu H) Nature and Artifice, 1350-1765

By G. H. Bantock Copyright 1980
4 Pages
by Routledge

4 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines key theorists in depth in order to give some insight into cultural change as reflected in their curricular recommendations and in the interplay they reveal between the two fundamental educational concepts of ‘artifice’ and ‘nature’. The essays on the various theorists – Erasmus, Vives, Castiglione, Elyot, Montaigne, Bacon, Comenius, Locke and Rousseau can be read separately but... Read more

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part One The Humanists: ‘Words’ 1. ‘A Chattering Flock’: the Humanist Experience 2. ‘Fashioned not Born’: Erasmus 3. ‘A Graceful and Nonchalant Spontaneity’: Castiglione 4. ‘The Governor’: Sir Thomas Elyot 5. ‘A Knowledge of Nature’: Vives 6. ‘Que Sçais-je?’: Montaigne Part Two The Empirics: ‘Things’ 7. ‘Heaven Here’: the Coming of Science 8. ‘Knowledge is Power’: Francis Bacon 9. ‘Celestial Agriculture’: Comenius 10. ‘The Under-labourer’ in Courtly Clothes: Locke 11. The Disenchantment of the European Mind’: The Enlightenment 12. ‘The Mountain Goat, not the Ballet Dancer’: Rousseau. Conclusion. Short Biographies of the Main Theorists. Select Bibliography. Index.

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G Bantock

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