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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bushnell, Rebecca W., 1952- Culture of teaching. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996 (OCoLC)604757937 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca W Bushnell |
| ISBN: | 0801432359 9780801432354 0801483565 9780801483561 |
| OCLC Number: | 33865965 |
| Description: | xiii, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue: The Trials of Humanism -- 1. Introduction: Humanism Reconsidered -- 2. The Sovereign Master and the Scholar Prince -- 3. Cultivating the Mind -- 4. Harvesting Books -- 5. Tradition and Sovereignty -- Epilogue: Contemporary Humanist Pedagogy. |
| Responsibility: | Rebecca W. Bushnell. |
Abstract:
Renaissance texts depicting the schoolroom reveal a pedagogy fraught with tensions - between freedom and mastery, flexibility and rigid control, a passion for variety and a fear of excess. Bushnell describes this oscillation between opposites through debates over corporal punishment, in which the schoolmaster appears either as all-powerful or as the insignificant servant of authority. In pedagogical manuals strongly reminiscent of gardening guides, the scholar was seen as both a pliant vine and a force of nature. Bushnell perceives a similar ambivalence in early humanist attitudes toward reading and the creation of a literary canon. Moving outside the classroom walls, she considers the contradictory politics of appeals to tradition and invention in early debates over imitating the classics. In each instance, she indicates how, at the end of the sixteenth century, this balance began to tilt toward authoritarianism, selectivity, and discrimination.
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