Medieval culture and education
Transcript of Medieval culture and education
- 1. HISTORYAND DEVELOPMENTOF EDUCATION (EDU404) HISTORICALAND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS -MEDIEVAL CULTUREAND EDUCATION -RENAISSANCECLASSICAL HUMANISM MADAM SHIDA PREPARED BY: - SHAZUWAAMIRABINTIAHMAD NIZUWAN(2014334545)
- 2. MEDIEVAL CULTURE AND EDUCATION
- 3. SUB TOPICS : DECLINE AND REVIVAL IN LEARNING INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING ACCESS TO SCHOOLING EDUCATION OF MEDIEVAL WOMEN HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
- 4. DECLINE AND REVIVAL IN LEARNING The time period between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance (c.500-1400) Knows as Middle age or medieval period. The end of the Greco-Roman modern period. Medieval period : - first by a decline in learning - revival by scholastic educators
- 5. INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING Primary School European formal primary education fell to the church in parish, chantry (liturgical music) & monastic schools. Universities (Paris, Bologna, Salerno, Oxford, Cambridge) provided higher & professional education in the fields theology (nature of God), law & medicine. Secondary School Monastic & cathedral schools offered religious & liberal arts curricula. Merchant & craft guilds established vocational schools to train their apprentices in specific trades. Knights learned battle tactics & the chivalric code.
- 6. ACCESS TO SCHOOLING Class & gender limited schooling to only a small minority. Majority of students were men studying for religious career as priest or monks. Mostly serfs, usually working as farm laborers on the estates of feudal lords.
- 7. EDUCATION OF MEDIEVAL WOMEN Medieval society varied womens education according to their socio-economic class. Still consigned to traditional gender-prescribed roles. Girls of the serf & peasant classes learned household & child-rearing chores by imitating their mothers. Women of the noble classes learned the
- 8. Convents like monasteries, had libraries & schools to prepare nuns to follow the religious rules of their communities. Medieval schools & universities were reserved for men, guaranteeing male social dominance.
- 9. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (1098-1179 CE) A noted scholar. Educated nun in catholic church. Posses higher position of a Benedictine convent in Germany. Where she directed the nuns religious & educational formation. A scholar, teacher, writer & composer.
- 10. Guide womens spiritual development in her community. The Ways of God The Book of Divine Works
- 11. Composed religious hymns Hildegard's hymns such as, "Mathias sanctus, "Ave generosa" and "O ignee Spiritus. Wrote medical tracts about the causes, symptoms & cures of illnesses .
- 12. AQUINAS: SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION SUB TOPICS : FAITH & REASON COMBINED RECONCILING SCRIPTURES WITH GREEK REASONING SUBJECT-MATTER DISCIPLINES
- 13. FAITH & REASON COMBINED Faith led to the truth Believed that the Bible and the Churchs doctrines bring supernatur al truthsCombination of Christian faith & human reasoning Scholasticis m (method of theological & philosophica l scholarship & teaching)
- 14. RECONCILING SCRIPTURES WITH GREEK Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Reconciling authorities to link Christian doctrine with Aristotles Greek philosophy. Used both faith & reason to answer basic questions about the Christian concept of God, the nature of human kind & the universe, & the relationship between God & human.
- 15. Human possess both a physical body & a spiritual soul. Ultimate purpose is to experience eternity with God in heaven. Human knowledge begins in sensation & completed by conceptualization. Teachers vocation as combining faith, love & learning. Expert in their subject Active & skilled instructors Lovers of humanity Teacher need to be serious scholars
- 16. Aquinass suggestio ns prospective preservice teachers should have a vocation or a calling to teach & possess an in depth knowledge as their subject matter. Teachers need to reflect on their teaching to find the deeper meaning of what they do in the classroom.
- 17. SUBJECT-MATTER DISCIPLINES The curriculum was organized into formal subjects. Example: (mathematics, natural & moral philosophy, metaphysics & theology) Scholastics used the syllogism in teaching. Syllogism- deductive reasoning to organized knowledge bodies. Importance of informal education through family, friends, environment. Aquinass philosophy= Thomism influenced education in catholic schools, where it serves as the basis of a school- faith community.
- 18. OVERVIEW THEORIST PHILOSOPHICA L ORIENTATION VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE VIEWS ON EDUCATION AND CURRICULUM CONTRIBUTION AND INFLUENCE HILDEGARD OF BINGEN CE 1098- 1179 (GERMAN) Medieval abbess; Christian spirituality and natural medical science. Human beings need spiritual developme nt and natural knowledge. Women should have a multidimension al education in religion, nature studies, and music. Teacher as mentor and guide to the individuals spiritual, natural, and moral development. AQUINAS CE 1225- 1274 (ITALIAN MEDIEVAL THEOLOGIAN ) Christian theology and Aristotelian (realist) philosophy. Human beings possess both a spiritual nature Education should be based on human nature, with appropriate Teacher as moral agent; education related to universal theological goals; synthesis of the theological
- 19. PERIOD POLITICAL AND SOCIAL EVENTS SIGNIFICANT EDUCATIONAL EVENTS MEDIEVAL 713 Arab conquest of Spain 800 Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor 1096-1291 Crusades to the Holy Land 1182-1226 St. Francis of Assisi 1079-1142 Abelard, author of Sic et Non 1180 University of Paris granted papal charter and recognition 1209 University of Cambridge founded 1225-1274 Thomas Aquinas, author of Summa Theologiae
- 20. REFERENCES http://the- orb.net/encyclop/culture/music/mather.htm http://www.medieval-life.net/education.htm http://www.thefinertimes.com/middle- ages/education-in-the-middle-ages.html