ABSTRACT
This book examines Robert Grosseteste’s often underrepresented ideas on education. It uniquely brings together academics from the fields of medieval history, modern science and contemporary education to shed new light on a fascinating medieval figure whose work has an enormous amount to offer anyone with an interest in our educational processes.
The book locates Grosseteste as a key figure in the intellectual history of medieval Europe and positions him as an important thinker who concerned himself with the science of education and set out to elucidate the processes and purposes of learning. This book offers an important practical contribution to the discussion of the contemporary nature and purpose of many aspects of our education processes.
This book will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the disciplines of educational philosophy, medieval history, philosophy and theology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|1 pages
Robert Grosseteste and the medieval ordered human
chapter 2|21 pages
Robert Grosseteste on Eudaimonia, happiness and learning
chapter 3|26 pages
Robert Grosseteste and the theory of learning
chapter 4|19 pages
‘Gentleness and discretion’
part II|1 pages
Modern education through the Grossetestian lens
chapter 5|15 pages
Knowledge and virtue
chapter 8|20 pages
The contested call for ‘what works’ education research
chapter 9|23 pages
Rejecting the marketplace
part III|1 pages
Grossetestian theories of learning and pedagogy