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Cultural History of Education

Course code

KAK7026.HR

old course code

KAK7026

Course title in Estonian

Kasvatuskultuuri ajalugu

Course title in English

Cultural History of Education

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To clarify connections between the educational models of different cultural periods. To widen the students’ horizon and knowledge about the facts of educational sciences. To deepen the skill of critical analysis of source materials and the skill of educational-philosophical generalization.
To create the prerequisites to get new knowledge about educational environment and educational culture in its aims and priorities in different times and in different cultures by form of comparative analyzes.
To support the skills of comparing and finding a common features.
To support to study several aspects of education deeply between times and different thinking spaces.

Brief description of the course

I Educational models of the first major civilizations: a nature man (remote antiquity) A Writing Man (Sumer and Egypt), A Law Man (Hebrew), A Man-Hero (Greece) and A Man-Citizen (Rome). The understanding of a world of A Nature Man. the importance of rituals, initiation, The model of Teacher (The Knower) from ancient and eternal viewpoint.
The disciplining of A Writing Man, the magic and prestige of a written word. The meaning of Law in Hebrew Culture. Talmud as narrative.
II The Middle Ages and growing homo christianus. Christian mono-pedagogy and pedagogical subcultures: cleric, knight, citizen, peasant. The understanding of a world of a medieval man. Woman in the Old Testament. The Holy Bible as narrative. Medieval education reflected in homo ludens of J. Huizinga
III The Middle Ages class position- based education, the formation and characteristics of knight's ethics. Church, clergy and school education. Septem artes liberales. Signs and symbols in christian art. The position of woman in its different status and in Christianity generally.
IV The birth of a new man in Renaissance. School of Vittorino da Feltre and the educational principles of humanists.
Educational models of Christian East: Byzantium and Russia (Domostroi). Russian educational principles and behaviour based on Domostroi’s thought. The formation of Russian mentality by Byzantine impacts.
V Reformation. The effects of reformation to upbringing and education. The new family model in Europe.
The expansion of literacy, the formatting of school structure. The struggle between Protestantism and Catholicism on behalf of the dominance on the education landscape. Immorality and morality. The Counter-Reformation and Jesuits as teachers of youth.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- knows facts and knowledge of key issues in educational history and culture;
- is able to analyze, differentiate and compare the cultural-historical features and basic concepts of the education of different spatial times and to find connections and commonalities between them;
- is able to synthesize ideas characteristic of different stages of the history of educational culture and to take a critical approach to them;
- knows the pedagogical ideas of the great figures of education in cultural history.

Teacher

Tiiu Ernits, PhD

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