Our Mythical Education

The Reception of Classical Myth Worldwide in Formal Education, 1900–2020

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Lisa Maurice

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Clearly, wherever myth forms part of an educational syllabus, value judgements have been made by those who chose the texts, with regard to content, approach, usage, emphases, purpose and many other elements. [...] the present volume examines the reception of such myth within formal education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries […]. It focuses for the most part on school education, but with forays into post-high school where relevant, and includes a wide geographical and chronological range. With regard to the latter limitations, the general emphasis is on modern day, and the current situation, but as a result of individual historical circumstances in each example (Lisa Maurice,
Editor of the Volume).


This is a task of paramount importance, as educational processes have a lasting influence on us – all the more so as we are exposed to them already in childhood, when the capacity for critical thinking is being formed by none other than school curricula shaped and developed in specific circumstances. This volume makes us aware of these complex processes, their implications, and the opportunities they create for the future of Classical Antiquity (Katarzyna Marciniak, Editor of the Series).


Rok wydania2021
Liczba stron580
KategoriaPublikacje darmowe
WydawcaUniwersytet Warszawski
ISBN-13978-83-235-4624-5
Numer wydania1
Język publikacjiangielski
Informacja o sprzedawcyePWN sp. z o.o.

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  Katarzyna Marciniak, In the Circle of Chiron’s Pupils, or: A Foreword by the Series Editor    11
  Notes on Contributors    17
  List of Figures and Tables    25
  Acknowledgements by Lisa Maurice    31
  Lisa Maurice, Introduction    33
  
  Part I: Our Mythical Education in Western Europe
  Ariadne Konstantinou, Modern Greek “Prehistory”: Ancient Greek Myth and Mycenaean Civilization in Modern Greek Education    49
  Valentina Garulli, Our Mythical Fascism? Classical Mythology at School during the Italian Fascist Twenty-Year Period    69
  Luis Unceta Gómez, A Hundred Years of Classical Mythology in Spanish Educational Systems    93
  Markus Janka and Michael Stierstorfer, Metamorphoses of Mythological Education: Ovid and His Metamorphoses as Subjects of Secondary Education in Germany    123
  Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Developing Multiliteracies through Classical Mythology in British Classrooms    139
  
  Part II: Our Mythical Education in Central and Eastern Europe
  Hanna Paulouskaya, Learning Myths in the Soviet School    155
  Elena Ermolaeva and Lev Pushel, Classical Languages, Culture, and Mythology at the Classical Gymnasium of Saint Petersburg    189
  Janusz Ryba, Greek and Roman Mythology in Classical Education in Poland after 1945    209
  Katarzyna Marciniak and Barbara Strycharczyk, Macte animo! – or, The Polish Experiment with “Classics Profiles” in Secondary School Education: The Warsaw Example    237
  
  Part III: Our Antipodean Mythical Education
  Elizabeth Hale and Anna Foka, Myths of Classical Education in Australia: Fostering Classics through Fabrication, Visualization, and Reception    295
  Babette Puetz, Odysseus Down Under: Classical Myth in New Zealand School Education    311
  
  Part IV: Our American Mythical Education
  Emily Gunter and Dan Curley, “The Greatest Stories Ever Told”: US Classical Mythology Courses in the New Millennium    325
  Alex McAuley, Reconciling Catholicism with the Classics: Mythology in French Canadian Catholic Education    349
  Ricardo Gancz and Pablo Silva Machado Bispo dos Santos, The Contribution of Graeco-Roman Mythology to the Formation of Brazilian National Identity    377
  
  Part V: Our Far-Flung Mythical Education: Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
  Divine Che Neba and Daniel A. Nkemleke, Revisioning Classical Mythology in African Dramaturgy: A Study of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are Not to Blame    399
  Claudia C.J. Fratini, Crossing the Parallel Universe(s): An Experimental, Multicultural, and Interdisciplinary Approach to Using Mythology in the South African Classroom    419
  Ayelet Peer and Marie Højlund Roesgaard, The Emperor, the Sun, and Olympus: Mythology in the Modern Japanese Education System    443
  Lisa Maurice, Classical Mythology and the Israeli Educational System    465
  
  Lisa Maurice, Afterword: Some Concluding Thoughts    485
  Bibliography    493
  Index of Names    553
  Index of the Main Concepts and Mythological Figures    561
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