Course: HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION

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Course title HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
Course code KHI/KDVV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Tomíček David, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Subject circles of the individual lectures: 1. Science and education as subjects of historiographic research 2. Science and scholarship of Classical Antiquity - constituting the canon of artes liberales 3. Christianity and the pagan heritage - the issue of translating Classical education in the early Middle Ages 4. Caroline Renaissance and its significance for spiritual culture 5. The 12th-century Renaissance - the attitudes to nature 6. Education at (cathedral) schools in France - the Abaelard case 7. The origination of universities and scholastics 8. Human body in the postulates of medieval physiology and medicine 9. Plague and the response to epidemics in Middle Ages and early modern times 10. Italian Renaissance and the issue of Humanism 11. Magic in Middle Ages and early modern times 12. Typography and its impact on the culture of reading - scholarship and culture in early modern times 13. Scientific revolution of early modern times - cosmological issues 14. Science and scholarship at the threshold of the modern era - the Enlightenment

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the subject is to introduce students to the basic issues of history of science and education in the wider sense of the word (education as part of culture) in a time span ranging from Classical Antiquity to the end of early modern times. Emphasis is laid on the European space and, mainly, Latin-rooted culture. The lessons also focus on chronological presentation of the most significant representatives of history of science as well as on cognitive methods and institutions and ideological postulates characteristic of the given era.
The graduates can identify basic terms, such as scholastics, Renaissance, Humanism, Enlightenment, etc. They are able to work with them as with historiographically conditioned categories and are orientated in the recommended literature. They can also describe the significance of crucial representatives of European development in the fields of science and scholarship and understand the related paradigms of ideas. They are able to operate with the concepts "tradition" and "continuity" in assessing the individual aspects of European (spiritual) culture.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Students are recommended to attentively participate in lectures and to study the assigned professional literature.
Recommended literature
  • Bernal, J. D. Věda v dějinách I, II. Praha, 1960.
  • Burke, P. Společnost a vědění I. Praha, 2007.
  • Curtius, E. R. Evropská literatura a latinský středověk. Praha, 1998.
  • Floss, P. Architekti křesťanského středověkého myšlení. Praha, 2004.
  • Hadot, P. Závoj Isidin. Esej o dějinách ideje přírody. Praha, 2010.
  • Kratochvíl, Z. Filosofie mezi mýtem a vědou. Praha, 2009.
  • Kristeller, P. O. Osm filosofů italské renesance. Praha, 2007.
  • Kuhn, T. S. Struktura vědecký revolucí. Praha, 1998.
  • Le Goff, J. Intelektuálové ve středověku. Praha, 1999.
  • Yatesová, F. Giordano Bruno a hermeneutická tradice. Praha, 2002.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (Single Subject) (A14) Category: History courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Documentation of Historical Memorials (A16) Category: History courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer