From Monastery Class to Primary School

Title: From Monastery Class to Primary School

Author: LC Stilma

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789055743810

Condition: Good

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Description:
What educational ideals were alive in the Middle Ages among the knighthood and the common people? Could laymen also go to a monastery school? What did a schoolmaster have to teach his pupils in the sixteenth century? Why were Dutch merchants so good at arithmetic according to the English? Who was Comenius and what does he have to do with computers? What was the maximum number of pupils allowed in one class according to the School Act of 1806? What views on education have there been through the centuries and which are still relevant?

This book contains answers to these and many other questions. It describes the ideas about and the practice of education and teaching in the Netherlands from the Middle Ages to the present. Depending on the period, the author pays attention to cultural-historical, philosophical, socio-political and art-historical issues, but also to school organization and school policy.

Each chapter is, broadly speaking, structured according to a fixed pattern: a general characterization, followed by educational views characteristic of the specific period and the changing vision of children. This is followed by a presentation of school practice. Each chapter concludes with a section "Further orientation;", which, in addition to text fragments, also includes discussion questions and suggestions for a visit to a museum, a theater, or a concert. The text is playfully and informatively interspersed with engravings, paintings, and cartoons that provide a wonderful picture of the ideas about education and upbringing through the ages.
From monastery class to primary school is intended for teacher training college students, pedagogy students, teachers and those interested in primary education.

Keywords: education, upbringing, pedagogy