| dc.contributor.author | Foster, Katherine Dale. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:36:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1994 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1994 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN93813 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55424 | |
| dc.description | Most writers of histories of schools begin with the Greek educational system, perhaps because the Western perspective of most English language historians makes the Greek civilization a convenient starting point. This study shows that the classroom preceded the Greek civilization by thousands of years; ancient Sumerians constructed classrooms in which to instruct their young as early as 3000 BCE. | en_US |
| dc.description | In each of three ancient civilizations--the Sumerian, Egyptian and Greek--the fundamental aspects of classrooms are examined. These aspects include the physical characteristics of the classroom, the curriculum, the textbooks, the teachers and the methods they used, and the students and the way they spent their day at school. It might be expected that changes in communications devices used within classrooms, such as papyrus, clay, and, in our own time, computers, would change the fundamental characteristics of classroom life. However, this study finds little evidence for change in the fundamental aspects of classroom activities; and it is contended that the physical characteristics of ancient classrooms are in some important respects similar to modern day classrooms in Western societies, the school day appears to have changed very little and methods of instruction used today have forerunners in the classrooms of ancient Sumer, Egypt and Greece. | en_US |
| dc.description | It is suggested that the underlying basis for this absence of change is that the purpose of the classroom has remained the same: from its earliest days, the classroom has been the place where teachers have been expected by each society to pass down the defining characteristics of that society to its young. It is suggested that in each society, teachers have concentrated on their own pedantics, and used pedantry to control their students. This study shows that the purpose of the classroom from the earliest times has been to control the young, and pedantry has been the principal means of doing so. | en_US |
| dc.description | The hierarchical system of human interaction between students and their teachers seems to have been at the core of what has gone on inside classrooms in every age. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1994. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education, History of. | en_US |
| dc.subject | History, Ancient. | en_US |
| dc.title | The classroom in ancient times. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
