Abstract

MALAVASI, Silvana; OLIVEIRA, Terezinha  and  BATISTA, Viviane da Silva. A History of Education look at the medieval university: the social and historical importance of this institution. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.78, pp.1308-1318.  Epub Oct 04, 2023. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.23.078.ao03.

The object of this article is the social and historical importance of medieval university. From the perspective of the History of Education, this space of knowledge, reflection on human action and production of knowledge is analyzed with the following main objectives: a) to make historical considerations about the medieval university by appreciating the past and the roots of the contemporary university, and b) to address the relationships between teacher and student in the medieval university and the changes that permeated them. The text contains two subtitles: The medieval university and its social function and The medieval university: teachers and students. As for the bibliographical review, we relied on authors who approached the institution from the perspective of the History of Education: Guizot (1907), Ullmann (2000), Le Goff (1984; 2017), Verger (1990), De Boni (2005), Oliveira (2007; 2008), besides Thomas Aquinas (2006), one of the great names in scholastic philosophy. Considering that history is essential to the memory of civilizations, we sought theoretical and methodological support in the principles of Social History, using the concepts of long duration and totality, and works in which Marc Bloch (2001) and Fernand Braudel (1992) show the importance of history for the construction of intellectual, cultural, and social knowledge. Finally, we consider that university, as an institutional space for knowledge production, must be the object of debates about its social function and about the responsibility of intellectuals in human education, in the valorization of knowledge, and in the construction of social directions.

Keywords : Middle Ages; University; Historical knowledge; Social Function..

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