ABSTRACT
First Published in 2005. Emile Durkheim's writing on education is well-known and widely recognized to be of great significance. In these lectures - given for the first time in 1902 to meet an urgent contemporary need - Durkheim presents a 'vast and bold fresco' of educational development in Europe. He covers nearly eight hundred years of history. The book culminates in two long chapters of positive recommendations for modern curriculum, which should be of special interest and value to those concerned with education policy, in whatever capacity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |174 pages
Part One
chapter Chapter 3|11 pages
The early Church and education (II)
Monastic schools up to the time of the Carolingian Renaissance
chapter Chapter 8|13 pages
The meaning of the word universitas
The half-ecclesiastical half-secular character of the University
part |174 pages
Part Two
chapter Chapter 17|13 pages
Educational theory in the sixteenth century
A comparison between the humanist and the scholarly movements
chapter Chapter 23|14 pages
The educational theory of the Realists
Its origins: Comenius, Roland and the Revolution
chapter Chapter 25|14 pages
Variations in the curriculum in the nineteenth century
Definition of secondary education