TY - BOOK
T1 - Knowledge, Literacy, and Elementary Education in the Old Babylonian Period
AU - Middeke-Conlin, Robert William
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period. It further employs a new method to research these topics. Contrary to numerous existing studies on the subject, the author examines elementary education globally, that is, in pursuit of Old Babylonian education in its entirety. Typically, education is examined in a piecemeal fashion. It's as if education centered on lexicography alone or mathematics alone. This work encompasses a view about educational content and knowledge systems, as opposed to only specific aspects or branches of them. In doing so, a characterization of institution and society is made possible allowing the work to open new general perspectives on Mesopotamian knowledge, literacy, and education.
AB - This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period. It further employs a new method to research these topics. Contrary to numerous existing studies on the subject, the author examines elementary education globally, that is, in pursuit of Old Babylonian education in its entirety. Typically, education is examined in a piecemeal fashion. It's as if education centered on lexicography alone or mathematics alone. This work encompasses a view about educational content and knowledge systems, as opposed to only specific aspects or branches of them. In doing so, a characterization of institution and society is made possible allowing the work to open new general perspectives on Mesopotamian knowledge, literacy, and education.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Literacy
KW - Numeracy
KW - Old Babylonian Period
KW - KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
KW - Epistemic change
KW - Lexicography
KW - orality
KW - Education
KW - History of education
KW - Knowledge economy
KW - Knowledge acquisition
KW - Reasoning
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-45226-0
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-45226-0
M3 - Book
SN - 9783031452253
BT - Knowledge, Literacy, and Elementary Education in the Old Babylonian Period
PB - Springer Nature Switzerland
CY - Cham
ER -