A culture of teaching
A culture of teaching: early modern humanism in theory and practice Rebecca W. Bushnell
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996.
ISBN: 0801432359
DDC: 370.112094209031
LCC: LC1011
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
This provocative account of humanist education in early modern
England relates the history of humanism to debates about its current
status. The humanism Rebecca W. Bushnell traces through
sixteenth-century sources emerges as distinct from humanist doctrines
espoused today. And yet, in the conflicts faced by early humanists,
Bushnell identifies the origins of contemporary educational notions
and practices, including approaches to discipline, gender and class
differences, reading and interpretation, canon formation, and the
transmission of tradition. Renaissance texts depicting the schoolroom
reveal a pedagogy fraught with tensions - between freedom and
mastery, flexibility and rigid control, a passion for variety and a
fear of excess. Bushnell describes this oscillation between opposites
through debates over corporal punishment, in which the schoolmaster
appears either as all-powerful or as the insignificant servant of
authority. In pedagogical manuals strongly reminiscent of gardening
guides, the scholar was seen as both a pliant vine and a force of
nature. Bushnell perceives a similar ambivalence in early humanist
attitudes toward reading and the creation of a literary canon. Moving
outside the classroom walls, she considers the contradictory politics
of appeals to tradition and invention in early debates over imitating
the classics. In each instance, she indicates how, at the end of the
sixteenth century, this balance began to tilt toward
authoritarianism, selectivity, and discrimination.
Language: eng
Physical Description: xiii, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (alk. paper)
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