Life Histories
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Autor:innen
Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
10.12.2020
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Sammlung
Typ
04A - Beitrag Sammelband
Herausgeber:innen
Tröhler, Daniel
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
Betreuer:in
Übergeordnetes Werk
A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment
Themenheft
DOI der Originalpublikation
Link
Reihe / Serie
The Cultural Histories Series
Reihennummer
4
Jahrgang / Band
Ausgabe / Nummer
Seiten / Dauer
169-186
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Bloomsbury
Verlagsort / Veranstaltungsort
London
Auflage
1
Version
Programmiersprache
Abtretungsempfänger:in
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Zusammenfassung
In early modern Europe, relatively few people received a formal education, let alone higher education. This was not only due to the lack of schools—actually, schools existed in most cities and in many a rural parish—but mostly because many people left school as soon as they had obtained basic reading and writing skills. The generally low level of formal education led nineteenth- and twentieth-century historians to believe that literacy and numeracy rates in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe were considerably low, especially among the rural population. However, in early modern times, education was not only taught in schools. Noblemen and noble women were taught at home by private tutors, and learned societies, emerging in cities all over Europe, launched prize questions and printed the incoming treatises in order to enlarge their members’ knowledge. They also took measures to enlighten the rural people. City dwellers sent their children to private teachers who advertised to teach the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Farmers taught their children themselves, and for many, self-education was the method of choice to obtain useful knowledge and valuable skills. The biographical sketches of three women and four men presented in this chapter illustrate how those different forms of education and enculturation shaped the lives of people born in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Schlagwörter
Fachgebiet (DDC)
370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
Veranstaltung
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Enddatum der Ausstellung
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ISBN
978-1-350-03556-0
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Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Fachlektorat/Editorial Review
Open Access-Status
Lizenz
Zitation
BOSER HOFMANN, Lukas, 2020. Life Histories. In: Daniel TRÖHLER (Hrsg.), A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment. 1. London: Bloomsbury. S. 169–186. The Cultural Histories Series, 4. ISBN 978-1-350-03556-0. Verfügbar unter: https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/31860