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The contribution of the religious orders to education in Glasgow during the period, 1847-1918 (2006), on Catholics; Raftery, Deirdre, Jane McDermid, and Gareth Elwyn Jones, "Social Change and Education in Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Historiography on Nineteenth-century Schooling," History of Education, July/Sept 2007, Vol. 36 Issue 4/5, pp 447 ...
A carving of a seventeenth-century classroom with a dominie and his ten scholars, from George Heriot's School, Edinburgh. Education in early modern Scotland includes all forms of education within the modern borders of Scotland, between the end of the Middle Ages in the late fifteenth century and the beginnings of the Enlightenment in the mid-eighteenth century.
A French illustration of teaching from the late fourteenth century. From the early Middle Ages there were bardic schools, that trained individuals in the poetic and musical arts, but because Scotland was a largely oral society, little evidence of what they taught has survived. [1]
In the Early Middle Ages, Scotland was overwhelmingly an oral society and education was verbal rather than literary. Fuller sources for Ireland of the same period suggest that there may have been filidh , who acted as poets, musicians and historians, often attached to the court of a lord or king, and passed on their knowledge in Gaelic to the ...
Education in Medieval Scotland includes all forms of education within the modern borders of Scotland, between the departure of the Romans from Britain in the fifth century, until the establishment of the Renaissance late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century. Few sources on Scottish education survived the Medieval era. In the early ...
Pages in category "History of education in Scotland" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Education in early modern Scotland;
Scottish education in the eighteenth century concerns all forms of education, including schools, universities and informal instruction, in Scotland in the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the period there was a largely complete network of parish schools in the Lowlands, although there were gaps in provision in the Highlands.
Education in Scotland (Taylor & Francis, 1998) online. Munn, Pamela, et al. "Schools for the 21st century: the national debate on education in Scotland." Research Papers in Education 19.4 (2004): 433–452. Online; Passow, A. Harry et al. The National Case Study: An Empirical Comparative Study of Twenty-One Educational Systems. (1976) online