The Educational Legacy of Romanticism
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The Educational Legacy of Romanticism

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Educational Legacy of Romanticism

About this book

This international collection of essays by leading authorities in literature and education presents the first comprehensive view of the impact of Romanticism on education over the course of the last two centuries. Romanticism's reconception of self, nature, writing and the imagination forms a chapter of intellectual history that has led to a number of innovative programs in the schools. The book returns to the educational thinking of key figures from the time—Rousseau, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Coleridge—before charting their influence on such historical and contemporary developments as Montessori schools, art education, free schools and current writing programs. The contributors tend to challenge common assumptions concerning Romanticism and do not shy away from its darker side; their work encompasses both theoretical considerations of Romantic and post-modern conceptions of the self and practical concerns with Romanticism's potential for the school curriculum. The Educational Legacy of Romanticism represents a multi-disciplinary inquiry into the continuing influence which cultural endeavours can have on the social practices of society.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. From the Director
  3. About the Authors
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Rousseau's Emile: The Nature and Purpose of Education
  6. 2. Lessons from the Wordsworths and the Domestic Scene of Writing
  7. 3. Coleridge, I. A. Richards, and the Imagination
  8. 4. Teaching the Monster to Read: Mary Shelley, Education and Frankenstein
  9. 5. Nineteenth-Century Romantic and Neo-Romantic Thought and Some Disturbing Twentieth-Century Applications
  10. 6. Romantic Roots of Human Science in Education
  11. 7. The Artist as the Model Learner
  12. 8. Romanticism Domesticated: Maria Montessori and the Casa dei Bambini
  13. 9. Romanticism and Alternatives in Schooling
  14. 10. The Theory of the Subject in Contemporary Curriculum Thought
  15. 11. An Education in Romanticism for Our Time
  16. 12. Women's Writing and the Recovery of the Romantic Project: Lessons for Contemporary Writing Pedagogy
  17. 13. Autobiographic Praxis and Self-Education: From Alienation to Authenticity
  18. 14. Recapitulating Romanticism in Education
  19. Index