Expanding Classics: Practitioner Perspectives from Museums and Schools

This volume explores innovative ways to expand classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences, highlighting the personal relevance of ancient history and material culture and the need to rethink the role of Classics in twenty-first-century classrooms and communities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 132 pages
Publication date: 18 April 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volume explores innovative ways of expanding classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences. It demonstrates that classical subjects have an important role to play within society and can enrich individuals' lives in many different and perhaps surprising ways. The chapters present projects covering literacy and engagement with reading, empowering students to understand and use new types of vocabulary, discovering the personal relevance of ancient history and the resonance of ancient material culture and stories. Contributors demonstrate that classical subjects can be taught cost-effectively and inclusively by non-specialist teachers and in non-traditional settings. In their various ways, they highlight the need to rethink the role of Classics in twenty-first-century classrooms and communities. Recommendations are made for further development, including ways to improve research, policy, and practice in the field of Classics education.

Expanding Classics presents an important series of case studies on classical learning, of interest to museum educators, teacher trainers, school leaders, and curriculum designers, as well as those teaching in primary, secondary, and further education settings in the UK and worldwide.

This volume explores innovative ways of expanding classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences. It demonstrates that classical subjects have an important role to play within society and can enrich individuals' lives in many different and perhaps surprising ways. The chapters present projects covering literacy and engagement with reading, empowering students to understand and use new types of vocabulary, discovering the personal relevance of ancient history and the resonance of ancient material culture and stories. Contributors demonstrate that classical subjects can be taught cost-effectively and inclusively by non-specialist teachers and in non-traditional settings. In their various ways, they highlight the need to rethink the role of Classics in twenty-first-century classrooms and communities. Recommendations are made for further development, including ways to improve research, policy, and practice in the field of Classics education.

Expanding Classics presents an important series of case studies on classical learning, of interest to museum educators, teacher trainers, school leaders, and curriculum designers, as well as those teaching in primary, secondary, and further education settings in the UK and worldwide.

This volume explores innovative ways of expanding classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences. It demonstrates that classical subjects have an important role to play within society and can enrich individuals' lives in many different and perhaps surprising ways. The chapters present projects covering literacy and engagement with reading, empowering students to understand and use new types of vocabulary, discovering the personal relevance of ancient history and the resonance of ancient material culture and stories. Contributors demonstrate that classical subjects can be taught cost-effectively and inclusively by non-specialist teachers and in non-traditional settings. In their various ways, they highlight the need to rethink the role of Classics in twenty-first-century classrooms and communities. Recommendations are made for further development, including ways to improve research, policy, and practice in the field of Classics education.

Expanding Classics presents an important series of case studies on classical learning, of interest to museum educators, teacher trainers, school leaders, and curriculum designers, as well as those teaching in primary, secondary, and further education settings in the UK and worldwide.

This volume explores innovative ways of expanding classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences. It demonstrates that classical subjects have an important role to play within society and can enrich individuals' lives in many different and perhaps surprising ways. The chapters present projects covering literacy and engagement with reading, empowering students to understand and use new types of vocabulary, discovering the personal relevance of ancient history and the resonance of ancient material culture and stories. Contributors demonstrate that classical subjects can be taught cost-effectively and inclusively by non-specialist teachers and in non-traditional settings. In their various ways, they highlight the need to rethink the role of Classics in twenty-first-century classrooms and communities. Recommendations are made for further development, including ways to improve research, policy, and practice in the field of Classics education.

Weight: 280g
Dimension: 144 x 223 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032021140