Pedagogy, Printing and Protestantism: The Discourse on Childhood

by Carmen Luke

Using Foucault's history of discourse, this book examines the relationship between the invention of the printing press and the evolution of concepts regarding childhood and schooling. It is an interdisciplinary study of schooling, childhood, literacy, and protestantism in 16th-century Germany. Luke traces the agenda for the rearing and education of the young as outlined by the Protestant reformers and popularized by the advent of printing. Luther's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791400026
• ISBN13: 9780791400029
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 171 Pages