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Liberal arts in the curriculum of European education
Liberal arts in the curriculum of European education

Author(s): Gościwit Malinowski
Subject(s): School education, Higher Education , State/Government and Education, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Education, History of Art
Published by: Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
Keywords: classical education; education; liberal arts; quadrivium; trivium;

Summary/Abstract: The text discusses the liberal arts: grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric as the trivium, as well as mathematics, music, geometry, and astronomy as the quadrivium. The author reveals the place and ways of understanding the liberal arts in the currents of European thought in the context of various attempts to build juxtapositions and educational systems, distinguishing and discussing the division into logical sciences, practical sciences, theoretical sciences, and mechanical sciences, among others.

  • Issue Year: 159/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 32-38
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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