HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE ROMAN AGE
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year - Curriculum Agenzie formative, servizi educativi, insegnamentoLearning Objectives
To trace the history of educational institutions in the Roman age, through a diachronic perspective, aiming to show continuity and change, phases and growth rates in the educational system; to present the elements of derivation but also of the novelty and originality of Roman institutions compared to the corresponding Greek institutions; to highlight, through the analysis of the sources, the osmotic relationship that links the educational institutions not only to various aspects of social life, but also to the politics of certain emperors, whose regulatory interventions particularly affected educational policy
Course Structure
Frontal classes; workshop
Attendance is not compulsory, but strongly recommended, because the use of multimedia tools and the teacher's explanations will facilitate the learning of fundamental concepts.
Detailed Course Content
Education and society, education and training in Roman society; institutional and environmental mediators in education: family, school, workshop, the paedagogium, the collegium, the gymnasium, military service; professional education and technical skills: the land surveyor, architect, geographer, physician, midwife, veterinarian, teacher, grammarian, rhetorician; aspects of school policy in the imperial age: establishment of state and municipal chairs; pay of the professores; education and training in domus Augusta
Textbook Information
- R. Frasca, Educazione e formazione a Roma. Storia, testi, immagini, Bari, Edizioni Dedalo 1996, pp. 11-546.
- M. Albana, Stato e istituzioni educative. Aspetti di politica scolastica in età imperiale, Catania, CULC 2000, pp 9-102.
- M. Albana, Alfabetismo e prospettive di carriera: qualche riflessione sui litterati milites, «Annali della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università di Catania» 9, 2010, pp. 3-15 (on line: http://ojs.unict.it/ojs/index.php/annali-sdf/article/view/97)
- M. Albana, Educazione e formazione nella domus Augusta «Annali della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università di Catania» 14, 2015, pp. 31-65 (on line: http://ojs.unict.it/ojs/index.php/annali-sdf/article/view/191)