ERIC Number: EJ1199686
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
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'A New Discovery' of Charles Hoole: Method and Practice in Seventeenth-Century English Education
History of Education, v48 n1 p1-18 2019
This article offers the first modern explication of the educational writings of Charles Hoole (1610-1667), arguing that his writings offer significant insight into the educational aims and methods of school instructors in seventeenth-century England. From attending to the needs of slow learners, to promoting learning games, to emphasising that children should be treated as rational actors, Hoole's "A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching School" (1660) fused theoretical expositions on the aims of education with practical recommendations to schoolmasters on how to succeed in these aims. Hoole's writings, as well as the earlier humanist pedagogical treatises of his peers, demonstrate that early and mid-seventeenth-century schoolmasters were already discussing and potentially implementing a number of educational initiatives that historians have traditionally credited to John Locke and later eighteenth-century educational theorists.
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Humanism, Elementary Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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