John Amos Comenius: Inciting the Millennium through Educational Reform

Comenius is considered by many scholars to be the father of modern education, a title that he has thoroughly earned. His ideas about universal education for all children foreshadowed modern pedagogical developments, and he dedicated more than forty years of his life to reforming education and society. The question guiding this research was: Why was Comenius so dedicated to reform efforts, and why were his ideas about education so peculiar for his time? Through a review of existing scholarship and Comenius’ own writing, namely the Labyrinth, Didactic, and the Orbis Pictus, it became clear that Comenius was inspired by the millenarian ideology prevalent during the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries in Europe as well as the effects that the turbulence of the seventeenth century had on his own life. These factors also led Comenius to believe that educational reform was the key to unlocking Pansophy, which would incite the Millennium, the golden age of peace and prosperity that would precede the second coming of Christ and the final judgement of God.

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THE HUMANIST IDEA OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AS A FORM OF EXPANDING THE EDUCATIONAL SPACE

BULLETIN Series Psychology ◽

10.51889/2020-3.1728-7847.20 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 (3) ◽

pp. 118-122

Author(s):

A. Kabdyrova ◽

Keyword(s):

Inclusive Education ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Education For All ◽

Modern Education ◽

The Individual ◽

Developmental Features

The article examines the issues and problems of the implementation of inclusive education as a way to humanize modern "education for all", regardless of ethnicity, abilities, presence or absence of developmental features, where the individual characteristics of each person are respected and appreciated. The author considers the personality of a university teacher as one of the key figures in inclusive education.

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Jūratė Kiaupienė, Between Rome and Byzantium. The Golden Age of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s Political Culture. Second Half of the Fifteenth Century to First Half of the Seventeenth Century. Translated by J. Will, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. 278 pp. ISBN 978-1644-691-46-5 (hardback); 978-1644-691-47-2

Lithuanian Historical Studies ◽

10.30965/25386565-02501009 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 220-226

Author(s):

Marius Sirutavičius

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Political Culture ◽

Fifteenth Century ◽

Golden Age ◽

Grand Duchy

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The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708

10.5117/9789462981386 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Henk Nierop

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Political Culture ◽

Visual Arts ◽

Golden Age ◽

Political Discourse ◽

Dutch Golden Age ◽

Book Illustrations ◽

Radical Enlightenment ◽

William Iii ◽

Spin Doctor

Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stadtholder and king William III. This study, the first book-length biography of de Hooghe, narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accused of pornography, fraud, larceny, and atheism. Traditionally regarded as a godless rogue, and more recently as an exponent of the Radical Enlightenment, de Hooghe emerges in this study as a successful entrepreneur, a social climber, and an Orangist spin doctor. A study in seventeenth-century political culture and patronage, focusing on spin and slander, this book explores how artists, politicians, and hacks employed literature and the visual arts in political discourse, and tried to capture their readership with satire, mockery, fun, and laughter.

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Cinderella! Cinderella!: A closer look into Dutch seventeenth-century gender roles and genre paintings

Visual Inquiry ◽

10.1386/vi_00016_1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 123-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Katie Downs

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Golden Age ◽

Everyday Practices ◽

Art Form ◽

The Everyday ◽

Second Commandment

This article highlights a time when Northern artists were no longer allowed to paint or carve holy images as they had done during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The Catholic Church banned this art form due to the interpretation of the second commandment: ‘Thou shalt make no graven image of thy God’. Genre paintings were the outcome of this banishment and a way to represent and depict an everyday life scene in a Dutch seventeenth-century household. The paintings would show the best of a situation and also its worst counterpart in almost a mocking comical way. By exploring these paintings, we come to understand how women were fed propaganda into becoming a better housewife, mother and bearing the weight of physical nourisher to all. Although amusing, the images have been celebrated and considered legendary during the Golden Age of the Netherlands. While taking a closer look at genre paintings and the everyday practices of the Dutch household, we can connect patterns to how these paintings affected women and influenced their domestic duties in the Golden Age.

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Grammar in verse: Latin pedagogy in seventeenth-century England

The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching ◽

10.5117/9789463724616_ch06 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Victoria Moul

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

Educational Experience ◽

Cultural Authority ◽

Latin Poetry ◽

Main Subject ◽

Modern Education ◽

Latin Verse

Latin was the medium as well as the main subject of all early modern education across Europe, in both Protestant and Catholic countries. This chapter examines the surprisingly widespread use of Latin verse (rather than prose) for pedagogical and memnonic purposes from the very earliest stages of education, focused on the role of Latin grammatical verse for the teaching of Latin, but discussing also the related phenomena of Latin verse grammars of Greek and Hebrew, and the reflections of this early educational experience in popular Latin poetry of the period. It argues that the use of grammatical Latin verse was both mnemonically effective and also served to establish from the earliest stages of education the moral and cultural authority and importance of Latin verse as a whole.

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Between Rome and Byzantium: the golden age of the grand Duchy of Lithuania’s political culture. the second half of the fifteenth century to the first half of the seventeenth century

Journal of Baltic Studies ◽

10.1080/01629778.2020.1832216 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 51 (4) ◽

pp. 631-633

Author(s):

Zenonas Norkus

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Political Culture ◽

Fifteenth Century ◽

Golden Age ◽

Grand Duchy

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Providing for Able Students at the Local School Level

The Arithmetic Teacher ◽

10.5951/at.28.6.0044 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 28 (6) ◽

pp. 44-46

Author(s):

Gwen Shufelt

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

History Of Education ◽

The United States ◽

Early History ◽

School Level ◽

Rural Culture ◽

Education For All ◽

Local School ◽

Universal Education ◽

History Of

In the early history of education in the United States it was only the capable student who remained in school. At that time mathematics was considered a subject appropriate for the intellectually elite and the needs of a predominantly rural culture did not include extensive education for the majority. However, with the spread of the Jeffersonian ideal of democracy based on universal education, by the middle of the twentieth century, education for all was becoming a reality.

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