Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics of Classical Learning

by Edited by Yun Lee Too , Niall Livingstone

• ISBN13: 9780521038010
• ISBN10: 0521038014
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book examines ideals of classical learning in order to make a significant and provocative contribution to current and past discussions on the role of education in society--why we teach and learn what we do. Essays by classicists, historians, philosophers and literary scholars argue for seeing the history of ancient education as an aspect of political theory and history, the figure of the teacher and of the student being inevitably implicated in various structures of intellectual, social and political authority.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction Yun Lee Too

Classics: from discipline in crisis to (multi-)cultural capital

Schoolboys and gentlemen: classical pedagogy and authority in the English public school

'Die Zung' ist dieses Schwert': classical tongues and gendered curricula in German schooling to 1908

'What does that argue for us?': the politics of teaching and political education in late eighteenth-century dialogues

Women and classical education in the early modern period

Pilgrimage to Parnassus: local intellectual traditions, humanist education and the cultural geography of sixteenth-century England

'Not so much praise as precept': Erasmus, panegyric, and the Renaissance art of teaching princes

Teachers, pupils and imperial power in eleventh-century Byzantium Panagiotis

Reading power in Roman Greece: the paideia of Dio Chrysostom

Children, animals, slaves and grammar

A good man skilled in politics: Quintilian's political theory

The voice of Isocrates and the dissemination of cultural power

Xenophon's Cyropaedia: disfiguring the pedagogical state

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Index

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