This international collection of essays by leading authorities in literature and education presents the first comprehensive view of the impact of Romanticism on education over the course of the last two centuries. Romanticism's reconception of self, nature, writing and the imagination forms a chapter of intellectual history that has led to a number of innovative programs in the schools. The book returns to the educational thinking of key figures from the time--Rousseau, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Coleridge--before charting their influence on such historical and contemporary developments...
This international collection of essays by leading authorities in literature and education presents the first comprehensive view of the impact of ...
Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of knowledge a different legal and economic standing than other sorts of property. Willinsky begins with Saint Jerome in the fifth century, then traces the evolution of reading, writing, and editing practices in monasteries, schools, universities, and among independent scholars through the medieval period and into the Renaissance. He delves...
Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into cont...
This international collection of essays by leading authorities in literature and education presents the first comprehensive view of the impact of Romanticism on education over the course of the last two centuries. Romanticism s reconception of self, nature, writing and the imagination forms a chapter of intellectual history that has led to a number of innovative programs in the schools. The book returns to the educational thinking of key figures from the time Rousseau, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Coleridge before charting their influence on such historical and contemporary developments...
This international collection of essays by leading authorities in literature and education presents the first comprehensive view of the impact of ...
