Teaching Classics Worldwide, 9781350427617
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Global Classics teaching: practices, policies, and purposes across nations.

Teaching Classics Worldwide

successes, challenges and developments

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    480 pages

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    5 March 2025

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Teaching Classics Worldwide: A Global Perspective

Designed for instructors in schools and universities, as well as stakeholders and policy-makers in education everywhere, this book is a systematic guide to contemporary school teaching of classical languages, literature and civilisation in major countries across the world. This book examines the trends and assesses the rationale for such diversity in programmes of study and asks the question: What are classical subje…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781350427617
ISBN-10:1350427616
Author:Steven Hunt, John Bulwer
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:5 March 2025
Weight:844g
Dimensions:31mm x 245mm x 170mm
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Critics Review

Teachers of Latin (and to a lesser extent, of Greek) in the U.S. often find themselves the only classics teacher in their school, or even in their community. This book demonstrates that they are part of a diverse international fellowship, in which everyone faces and responds to an array of challenges. * Mary L. B. Pendergraft, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Wake Forest University, USA *

About The Author

Steven Hunt

Steven Hunt is Associate Teaching Professor in Classics Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is Subject Lead for the PGCE in Latin and Classics and is editor of the Journal of Classics Teaching. He works extensively with the charity Classics for All to develop Classics in state schools in the UK. He is author of Starting to Teach Latin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) and Teaching Latin: Contexts, Theories and Practices (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). He is co-editor of Communicative Approaches to Teaching Classical Languages (2021), Teaching Classics with Technology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and Forward with Classics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

John Bulwer is a former teacher of Latin at the European School, Brussels, Belgium, and former President of Euroclassica (2015–2019). He has been active in promoting Classics teaching in Europe over many years. He is editor of Classics Teaching in Europe (Bloomsbury Academic, 2006). He is currently Chief Examiner and Adviser for Latin for the European Baccalaureate and the European Schools.

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