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
