Full Description
A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.
The Age of Enlightenment is characterized by a growing belief in the human capacity to change the world. This volume shows how the educational endeavors of the period contributed in their diversity to a thoroughly educationalized culture around 1800, the very foundation of the modern nation state, which then developed into the long 19th century.
An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education.
Contents
General Editor Preface
Introduction, Daniel Tröhler (University of Vienna, Austria)
1. Church, Religion and Morality, Mette Buchardt (University of Aalborg, Denmark)
2. Knowledge, Media and Communication, Stefan Ehrenpreis (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
3. Children and Childhoods, Paula S. Fass (University of Berkeley, USA)
4. Family, Community and Sociability, Claudia Opitz-Belakhal (University of Basel, Switzerland) and Sandro Guzzi-Heeb (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
5. Learners and Learning, Rachel Dunn (Durham University, UK)
6. Teachers and Teaching, Rebekka Horlacher (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
7. Literacies, Steven Cowan (University College London, UK)
8. Life Histories, Lukas Boser (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland)
Notes on Contributors
Index
