Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics of Classical Learning

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Overview

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.

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"This volume is a highly readable exploration of the political dimensions of Greco-Roman education and its subsequent models. Too's and Livingstone's project is a number of cuts above the ordinary edited collection of essays in both its selection of contributors and, not the least of virtues in these word-processor-driven days, in its editing. Strongly recommended for scholars and teachers in the humanities generally." James Tatum, Religious Studies Review

"...impressive interdisciplanary scholarship, deserving of study by scholars in History, English and other language studies as well as Classics. It should stand as proof against those who would put Classics to use in conservative efforts to retrench in the face of contemporary studies in pedagogy, gender, class and national identity." Joy Connolly, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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ISBN-13: 9780521038010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/19/2007
Series: Ideas in Context Series , #50
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 8.98 (h) x 0.75 (d)

	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Classics: from discipline in crisis to multi-cultural capital	16
2	Schoolboys and gentlemen: classical pedagogy and authority in the English public school	29
3	'Die Zung' ist dieses Schwert': classical tongues and gendered curricula in German schooling to 1908	47
4	'What does that argue for us?': the politics of teaching and political education in late eighteenth-century dialogues	67
5	Women and classical education in the early modern period	83
6	Pilgrimage to Parnassus: local intellectual traditions, humanist education and the cultural geography of sixteenth-century England	110
7	'Not so much praise as precept': Erasmus, panegyric, and the Renaissance art of teaching princes	148
8	Teachers, pupils and imperial power in eleventh-century Byzantium	170
9	Reading power in Roman Greece: the paideia of Dio Chrysostom	192
10	Children, animals, slaves and grammar	214
11	A good man skilled in politics: Quintilian's political theory	245
12	The voice of Isocrates and the dissemination of cultural power	263
13	Xenophon's Cyropaedia: disfiguring the pedagogical state	282
	Select bibliography	303
	Index	314

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