HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE ROMAN AGE
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Mela ALBANAExpected 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
Attendance of Lessons
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
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | Education and society | Frasca, pp. 11-37 |
2 | Multimedia and educational communication | Frasca, pp. 39-106 |
3 | Role education | Frasca, 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 paedagogium | Frasca, 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 Rome | Frasca, pp. 451-515; Albana, Il medico, pp. 40-51 |
11 | Imperial scholastic policy in the 1st century A.D | Albana, Stato, pp. 11-30 |
12 | Imperial scholastic policy in the 2nd-5th centuries A.D | Albana, Stato, pp. 31-78 |
13 | Remuneration of liberalium studiorum professores | Albana, Stato, pp. 79-102 |
14 | Eumenius | Albana, Eumenio, pp. 17-37 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
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
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