Education in Late Antiquity
Challenges, Dynamism, and Reinterpretation, 300-550 CE
Seiten
2022
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886978-8 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886978-8 (ISBN)
Education in Late Antiquity examines the integration of educational thought in the ideas and practices of wider society in late antiquity. Stenger shows that ideas about education, particularly with reference to how education informed character formation, changed during this period.
Education in Late Antiquity offers the first comprehensive account of the Graeco-Roman debate on education between c. 300 and 550 CE. Jan Stenger traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation through the explicit and implicit theories developed by Christian and pagan writers during this period. Whereas the postclassical education system has been seen as an immovable and uniform field, Stenger argues that writers of the period offered substantive critiques of established formal education and tried to reorient ancient approaches to learning. Bringing together a wide range of discourses and genres, Education in Late Antiquity shows how educational thought was implicated in the ideas and practices of wider society, addressing central preoccupations of the time, including morality, religion, the relationship with others and the world, and concepts of gender and the self. The key idea was that education was a transformative process that gave shape to the entire being of a person, instead of merely imparting formal knowledge or skills. Thus, the debate revolved around attaining happiness, the good life, and fulfilment, and so orienting education toward the development of the notion of humanity within the person. By exploring the discourse on education, this book recovers the changing horizons of Graeco-Roman thought on learning and formation.
Education in Late Antiquity offers the first comprehensive account of the Graeco-Roman debate on education between c. 300 and 550 CE. Jan Stenger traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation through the explicit and implicit theories developed by Christian and pagan writers during this period. Whereas the postclassical education system has been seen as an immovable and uniform field, Stenger argues that writers of the period offered substantive critiques of established formal education and tried to reorient ancient approaches to learning. Bringing together a wide range of discourses and genres, Education in Late Antiquity shows how educational thought was implicated in the ideas and practices of wider society, addressing central preoccupations of the time, including morality, religion, the relationship with others and the world, and concepts of gender and the self. The key idea was that education was a transformative process that gave shape to the entire being of a person, instead of merely imparting formal knowledge or skills. Thus, the debate revolved around attaining happiness, the good life, and fulfilment, and so orienting education toward the development of the notion of humanity within the person. By exploring the discourse on education, this book recovers the changing horizons of Graeco-Roman thought on learning and formation.
Jan R. Stenger is Professor of Classics at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He studies the intellectual and religious history of the later Roman Empire. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Greek lyric poetry, the Greek literature of late antiquity, and ancient Christianity.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 244 mm |
| Gewicht | 646 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-886978-9 / 0198869789 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-886978-8 / 9780198869788 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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