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Learning as shared practice in monastic communities, 1070-1180 /

"In this study, Micol Long looks at Latin letters written in Western Europe between 1070 and 1180 to reconstruct how monks and nuns learned from each other in a continuous, informal and reciprocal way during their daily communal life. The book challenges the common understanding of education as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Long, Micol (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Colección:Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; v. 58.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In this study, Micol Long looks at Latin letters written in Western Europe between 1070 and 1180 to reconstruct how monks and nuns learned from each other in a continuous, informal and reciprocal way during their daily communal life. The book challenges the common understanding of education as the transmission of knowledge via a hierarchical master-disciple learning model and shows how knowledge was also shared, exchanged, jointly processed and developed. Long presents a new and more complicated picture of reciprocal knowledge exchanges, which could be horizontal and bottom-up as well as vertical, and where the same individuals could assume different educational roles depending on the specific circumstances and on the learning contents"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004466494
9004466495