HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE ROMAN AGE

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Mela ALBANA

Expected Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will acquire a critical knowledge of the history of educational institutions in the Roman age through a diachronic perspective aimed at showing continuity and transformations, phases and rhythms of growth of the educational system; he/she will be able to highlight, through the analysis of the sources, the osmotic relationship linking educational institutions not only to the various aspects of social life but also to the policies of certain emperors, whose regulatory interventions had a particular impact on school 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.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

Required Prerequisites

Although the absence of in-depth prior knowledge is not an impediment, a basic knowledge of the general outlines of Roman world history would be desirable.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory, but strongly recommended, as the use of multimedia tools and the lecturer's explanations will facilitate the learning of fundamental concepts.

Non-attending students may contact the lecturer directly for clarification of the programme. Erasmus students can agree on the examination programme after an interview.

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,  Qualche riflessione sui giovani a Roma, in S. lentini, S.A. Scandurra, Quamdiu cras, cur non hodie?, Studi in onore di Antonia Criscenti Grassi, Aracne, Roma 2021, pp. 465-480.

- M. Albana, Eumenio, un retore direttore di dipartimento ante litteram, in “Amicitia res plurimas continet. Omaggio a Febronia Elia”, Catania 2018, Amicitia res plurimas continet. Omaggio a Febronia Elia, a cura di M. Albana - C. Soraci, Acireale-Roma, Bonanno editore, 2018 [Analecta Humanitatis, 35], pp. 17-37 (on line)

M. Albana, Il medico in età imperiale fra autorappresentazione e realtà Sociale, in Der Stifter und sein Monument: Gesellschaft – Ikonographie – Chronologie, Akten des 15. Internationalen Kolloquiums zum Provinzialrömischen Kunstschaffen. 14. bis 20. Juni 2017, Graz / Austria, B. Porod – P. Scherrer (Hrsg.), Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Archäologie der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 16, Graz 2019, pp. 40-51(on line)

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1 Education and society Frasca, pp. 11-37
2Multimedia and educational communicationFrasca, pp. 39-106
3Role educationFrasca, pp.109-174
4 The Roman familia as institutional and environmental mediator of education Frasca, pp.177- 254
5 School and school education Frasca, pp. 255-328; 517-549
6 The workshop and the paedagogiumFrasca, pp. 329-344
7 Youth associations Frasca, pp. 345-370
8 The army as an educational institution; the milites literati Frasca, pp. 371-386
9 The professions: the land surveyor, the architect, the geographe Frasca, pp. 389-450
10 The ars medendi in RomeFrasca, pp. 451-515; Albana, Il medico, pp. 40-51
11 Imperial scholastic policy in the 1st century A.D Albana, Stato, pp. 11-30
12Imperial scholastic policy in the 2nd-5th centuries A.DAlbana, Stato, pp. 31-78
13Remuneration of liberalium studiorum professores Albana, Stato, pp. 79-102
14EumeniusAlbana, Eumenio, pp. 17-37

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The examination consists of an oral test.

There are optional oral tests on the first part of the programme (from the origins of Rome to the Augustan age) to be agreed with the professor.

The examination may also be conducted electronically, should conditions require it.

Assessment will be based on

adequacy of expression with regard to content and method;

ability to process knowledge, grasping spatial-temporal and cause-effect connections;

capacity for critical investigation;

lexical correctness.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Education and society

Multimedia and educational communication

The Roman familia as institutional and environmental mediator of education

The Roman woman: models and reality

School and school education.

Women and written culture

The workshop and the paedagogium

Youth associations

The army as an educational institution; the milites literati

The professions: the land surveyor, the architect, the geographer  

The ars medendi in Rome

Imperial scholastic policy in the 1st century A.D.

Education and training in the domus Augusta

Culture and power in the age of the Antonines

Imperial scholastic policy in the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D.

Eumenius

the Athenaeum in Rome and the 'University' of Constantinople'.

Awareness of the topics indicated constitutes the starting point for verifying the student's ability to re-elaborate and critically deepen his knowledge