The Evolution of Educational Thought: Lectures on the formation and development of secondary education in France / Edition 1

by Emile Durkheim

Overview

First Published in 2005. Emile Durkheim's writing on education is well-known and widely recognized to be of great significance. In these lectures - given for the first time in 1902 to meet an urgent contemporary need - Durkheim presents a 'vast and bold fresco' of educational development in Europe. He covers nearly eight hundred years of history. The book culminates in two long chapters of positive recommendations for modern curriculum, which should be of special interest and value to those concerned with education policy, in whatever capacity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415386081
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/2005
Pages:	386
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Emile Durkheim, Peter Collins

Table of Contents

Part 1 one; Chapter 1 The history of secondary education in France; Chapter 2 The early Church and education (I); Chapter 3 The early Church and education (II); Chapter 4 The Carolingian Renaissance (I); Chapter 5 The Carolingian Renaissance (II); Chapter 6 The origins of the universities; Chapter 7 The birth of the University; Chapter 8 The meaning of the word universitas; Chapter 9 The arts faculty; Chapter 10 The colleges (concluded); Chapter 11 Teaching at the arts faculty; Chapter 12 The teaching of dialectic in the universities; Chapter 13 Dialectic and debate; Chapter 14; Conclusions regarding the University; Part 2 two; Chapter 15 The Renaissance (I); Chapter 16 The Renaissance (II); Chapter 17 Educational theory in the sixteenth century; Chapter 18 The educational thought of the Renaissance; Chapter 19 The Jesuits (I); Chapter 20 The Jesuits (II); Chapter 21 The Jesuits’ system and that of the University; Chapter 22; Conclusion on classical education; Chapter 23 The educational theory of the Realists; Chapter 24 The Revolution; Chapter 25 Variations in the curriculum in the nineteenth century; Chapter 26; Conclusion (I); Chapter 27; Conclusion (II);