International history and trends in education

The New School was powered by the interest originated in most populations, including famous figures, which promoted and helped the expansion of this movement. Lots of scientists and pedagogues joined it, and developed a wide variety of theories and studies to help. Philosophers and authors helped with the diffusion of this movement, because they are in charge of improving society and education is a big part of it.  This movement criticized the traditional school in order to seek an improvement in education and in the teaching-learning process. The educational contents wanted to highlight the freedom and autonomy of the child and present principles that are opposed to the traditional school. The methodologies use on the new school are precisely contrary to those of the traditional school. In this case, the mental health of the students is taken into account, adapting the curriculum to make it easier for them. All teaching is based on facts and experience, and on the formation of the...

  The Middle Age is a historical context of the Western civilization. It is divided into three stages: - Early middle ages: 5 th century to the middle of the 8 th century. - High middle ages: Second half of the 7 th century to the end of the 11 th century. - Low middle ages: 12 th century to the 15 th century. Objective of the Catholic school: spread the word of God and Christian values. It was based on the Bible and the Gospel. The Church was interested in evangelizing, Christianising, educating and guaranteeing the education of all human beings, regardless of their social class. Moral education was of great importance in monasteries. For Christianity, the innocence of children was a virtue. Instruction focused on a biblical-evangelical tradition. Military education was reserved for the nobles. Alcuino of York divided education into three stages. In universities the liberal arts were divided into two parts. The trivium consisted on learning grammatic, rhetoric ...

As a summary of my presentation about education in ancient civilizations: Regarding Chinese people, they are consideres economical, kind and also polite. Submission is considered the main pillar of education. For the Chinese, a great family is made up of a mother and a father and woman always has to obey man. From childhood they are brought up to obey and take care of their parents. The grandfather is usually the head of the family. Also, Tao is the moral rule. In relation to their education, teachers are competent and place great importance on knowledge and practice. During their first years at school, they learn reading and writing while in higher education they learn about ancient classics. As for women´s education, women are educated to be compliant and also to do house chores. In Chine, there is an educational referent, Confucius, China´s best philosopher who preached the importance of caring and maintaining family values. He considered that maintaining strong ties with the family...

  We choose “Education in ancient civilizations” because we think that is an interesting theme to compare with the education nowadays. It causes us intrigue about how education worked and how much has changed. Our other option was “New School and progressive education” but we finally did not choose it because this theme is the present, so we have learn things about it and we are sure that we are going to learn more information in other subjects. Also, did not choose "The Middle Age" because we have been estudying this topic in school for a long time and we are tought that it was a good idea to talk about other themes.  We prefer not to talk about “Deschooling movement” because we support traditional education, refering going to class. Finally, we discard the issue of "Theories of emancipation".  Reyes Chollet y Andrea Catalán.