Classroom and confession
Marjorie Curry Woods|Rita Copeland
The thirteenth century, a period that sees the growth of schools, also confessional system. These two developments are not unrelated: legislation Fourth Lateran Council 1215 making annual confession to one’s own parish priest universal and compulsory renewed call Third 1179 for establishment more schools masters at cathedrals churches provide comprehensive pastoral training secular clergy. early years century saw creation Franciscan Dominican orders, which, along with later mendicant had powerful impact on proliferation both educational texts. Both historical grounds in cultural terms, pedagogical texts classroom practices have their natural counterparts practices; our purpose here will be consider overlap mutual resonance traditions. most obvious evidence this connection is practical assimilation penitential into school texts, beginning continuing centuries much overlapping genres vernacular. In behavioural linked through idea disciplina, regulation knowledge self, whether rigours or practice. both, experience learner individualized, yet streamlined according time-honoured originating antiquity.
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