Elizabethan Education Flashcards
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Traditional Aims of Education:
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- teach the richest how to read, write in English and Latin.
- Very religious.
- maintain the existing social order
- mainly boy
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New Humanists Aims of Education:
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- More emphasis on Maths/Science – not religion.
- Protestants believed the bible should be in English and therefore more people needed to become literate.
- More trade and business meant more people needed to read and write
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Types of School
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Nobility,Grammar Schools, Petty/dame Schools, Universities, Aprenticships
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Nobility Schooling
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- Learn as Latin, Greek, History, Philosophy Government and Theology (Boys)
- Learn music, dancing, needlework, horse riding and archery (girls)
- Children of noble families were often sent to another noble household to finish their education
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Grammar Schools
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- private schools set up for boys considered clever from well-off families in towns [no girls]
- Fees vary depending on the wealth of the family
- holidays only at Christmas and Easter and school days lasting for 10 hours a day.
- curriculum focused on Latin, Greek and French as well as history and philosophy
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Apprenticeships
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Apprenticeships were often available for skilled craftsmen and yeomen to prepare them to work in the family business or farm
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Petty Schools
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- Set up in teachers homes
- Learn reading, writing and basic maths
- well off boys would go onto grammar school if they did well
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Dame Schools
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- provide girls with basic education for life
- run by educated women and focused on the girls’ role as a wife
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Universities
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- two universities in England – Oxford and Cambridge
- You would go there at 14 or 15
- Mostly Founded by Tudors
- Highest level of education
