First Advisor

Ann Weikel

Term of Graduation

Fall 1977

Date of Publication

11-16-1977

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.) in History

Department

History

Language

English

Subjects

Humanistic education -- England, Education -- England -- History

DOI

10.15760/etd.2496

Physical Description

1 online resource (107 pages)

Abstract

The following examines the historical development of English education available prior to university entrance in order to discover the impact of humanist ideas on the educational system. The survey of the structure and theory of pre-university English education begins in the early Middle Ages and continues through the Elizabethan period.

After examining the Medieval background, there follows a discussion of the political and religious settlement of the Reformation, and the basic programme of humanist reformers. Individual humanist writers are then studied, followed by a discussion of schools planned on humanist lines. With this, however, is contrasted a picture of English Renaissance schools in reality.

Many sources were consulted for background material as well as for specialized data on specific humanist writers. Primary sources were consulted whenever possible, but more often, it was necessary to use secondary sources which examine primary sources. The Columbia Teachers College Series on the history of education was exceedingly helpful in this regard.

The conclusions drawn are as follows. In spite of political changes and the influx of many new ideas, the English educational. system remained very much the same from the Middle Ages through the reign of Elizabeth. However, humanist ideas remained popular and influenced educational thought in the years that followed·.

Rights

In Copyright. URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).

Comments

If you are the rightful copyright holder of this dissertation or thesis and wish to have it removed from the Open Access Collection, please submit a request to pdxscholar@pdx.edu and include clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15956

Download

Share

COinS