Pedagogy and Power : Rhetorics of Classical Learning

by: Too, Y.L. Livingstone, N.

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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.

Truly interdisciplinary group of contributors: classicists, literary scholars, historians, and philosophers
Treats the subject from ancient Greece to the present
Identifies ancient education and its subsequent models as an aspect of political theory and history

Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Yun Lee Too
1. Classics: from discipline in crisis to (multi-)cultural capital Paul Cartledge
2. Schoolboys and gentlemen: classical pedagogy and authority in the English public school Christopher Stray
3. 'Die Zung' ist dieses Schwert': classical tongues and gendered curricula in German schooling to 1908 Sarah Colvin
4. 'What does that argue for us?': the politics of teaching and political education in late eighteenth-century dialogues Clare Brant
5. Women and classical education in the early modern period Jane Stevenson
6. Pilgrimage to Parnassus: local intellectual traditions, humanist education and the cultural geography of sixteenth-century England Warren Boutcher
7. 'Not so much praise as precept': Erasmus, panegyric and the Renaissance art of teaching princes David Rundle
8. Teachers, pupils and imperial power in eleventh-century Byzantium Panagiotis A. Agapitos
9. Reading power in Roman Greece: the paideia of Dio Chrysostom Tim Whitmarsh
10. Children, animals, slaves and grammar Catherine Atherton
11. A good man skilled in politics: Quintilian's political theory Teresa Morgan
12. The voice of Isocrates and the dissemination of cultural power Niall Livingstone
13. Xenophon's Cyropaedia: disfiguring the pedagogical state Yun Lee Too
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Pedagogy and Power : Rhetorics of Classical Learning

by: Too, Y.L. Livingstone, N.

• ISBN-13: 9780521594356 / 978-0-521-59435-6
• ISBN-03: 0521594359 / 0-521-59435-9
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998

Price: 99,00 EURO

1 copy in stock