Contents:
VOLUME ONE
The Ancient World: Orient and Mediterranean 2000 BC - AD 1054
I. The First Scribal Cultures: Mesopotamia
II. The First Scribal Cultures: Egypt
III. Early Civilization of Hellas: Literacy, Learning and Philosophy
IV. The Achievement of Athens: the Fifth Century
V. Rhetoric and Philosophy: Higher Learning in Fourth-Century Athens
VI. Aristotle and Higher Learning in Hellenistic Athens
VII. The Hellenistic Orient
VIII. Republic of Rome
IX. Empire of Rome
X. Religious Conflict and Syncretism: Early Christian Thought on Education
XI. Foundation of Christian Education
XII. Preservation of Traditional Learning: Byzantium
XIII. The Christian Church and Western Learning
VOLUME TWO
Civilization of Europe Sixth to Sixteenth Century
I. Foundations of European Education
II. Era of the Cathedral Schools
III. The Age of Crisis 1150-1230
IV. Emergence of the University
V. Age of Scholasticism
VI. Italy: Classical Revival of the Trecento
VII. Italy: Humanism of the Quattrocento
VIII. Italy: Higher Learning in the Quattrocento
IX. Expansion of Education and Humanism: I. France and Germany to 1500
X. Expansion of Education and Humanism: II. England to 1500
XI. Christian Humanism: I. Desiderius Erasmus and the Ideal of Piety
XII. Christian Humanism: II. Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany
XIII. Extension of Educational Thought and Practice in the Sixteenth Century
XIV. The Search for Method: Towards a Ratio
VOLUME THREE
The Modern West Europe and the New World
I. The Educational Heritage of the Modern West
II. The Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century
III. 'A Reformation of Schooles': Utopia and Reality in the Seventeenth Century
IV. Reformation to Enlightenment: The Extension of Schooling: I. The Catholic Conservative Tradition
V. Reformation to Enlightenment: The Extension of Schooling: II. The Protestant Initiative
VI. Education and the Enlightenment: The Conceptual Revolution
VII. An Age of Revolutions 1762-1830: Theoretical Foundations of Education for the New Order
VIII. An Age of Revolutions 1762-1830: Beginnings of National Systems
IX. The Bourgeois Epoch in Europe 1815-1900: Liberal Reform and Conservative Reaction
X. Science and Education: Towards a New Pedagogy
XI. The New Era in Education: I. Utopian and Progressive Movements in Europe
XII. The New Era in Education: II. Progressivism in the United States
XIII. The Rise of National Planning 1870-1939
XIV. The Socialist Millennium: The Soviet Union 1917-1940
XV. Patterns of Development: Significant Trends and Issues 1945 to the Present