Schooling in Western Europe

Grendler, Paul F.

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“…The availability of inexpensive texts was a key prerequisite for the spread of literacy in Renaissance Europe (Grendler 1990). School books generated high returns for Renaissance printers (Füssel 2005, Nicholas 2003, and Bolgar 1962.…”

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“…Important sea ports that did not get the printing press include: Bari, Bordeaux, Bremen, Dordrecht, Dublin, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Livorno, Malaga, Marseilles, Salerno, Santander, Salonika, and Toulon. As documented in the on-line appendix, sea ports were less likely than other cities to get printing presses 1450-1500 even controlling for distance from Mainz 39. Printers were invited to Rome, Chartres, Erfurt, and Florence.…”

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Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of The Printing Press *

Dittmar

2011

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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The movable type printing press was the great innovation in early modern information technology, but economists have found no evidence of its impact in measures of aggregate productivity or income per person. This paper examines the technology from a new perspective by exploiting city-level data on the establishment of printing presses in 15th century Europe. I find that between 1500 and 1600, cities where printing presses were established in the late 1400s grew at least 60 percent faster than similar cities which were not early adopters. I show that cities that adopted printing in the late 1400s had no prior growth advantage and that the association between adoption and subsequent growth was not due to printers anticipating city growth or choosing auspicious locations. These findings imply that the diffusion of printing accounted for between 20 and 80 percent of city growth 1500-1600. They are supported by historical evidence and instrumental variable regressions that exploit distance from Mainz, Germany-the birth place of printing-as an instrument for early adoption. The printing press reduced the costs of transmitting information between cities, but fostered new face-to-face interactions and localized spillovers. Print media notably fostered the development of skills, knowledge, and innovations valuable in commerce.

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Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of The Printing Press *

Dittmar

2011

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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“…Young students learned to read and write at a teacher's house, mainly for religious purposes, and the girls were additionally taught to sew or embroider (Higginson, 1974). At the Dame school, the Katateeb finds one parallel in history; throughout Western Europe there are many more (Grendler, 1990).…”

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The Katateeb Al-Bidoon Initiative: Repurposing the Past to Build a Transformative Future

Mansoor¹

2021

JEL

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The Katateeb al-Bidoon initiative was an after-school teach-in combined with a series of government protests against the sudden expulsion of stateless Bidoon children from any official Kuwait school. Considered illegal residents, the Bidoon status in Kuwait has deteriorated over the past generation, and their exclusion from Kuwait society is nearly complete. Regardless, many educational activists and teachers still continue to support Bidoon access to education, and the Katateeb al-Bidoon initiative is one example of their work. The name Katateeb refers to the archaic casual school system that was prevalent in Kuwait before the era of oil urbanization. Though its lifespan was one brief semester, from October 2014 to February 2015, a close examination of the initiative provides insight into how an improvised pedagogy based on an educational model from the past can develop beyond expectations and support a transformative future.

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“…All lessons were given in the vernacular [Grendler, 2002, p. 420] with a focus on the teaching of abbaco. The curriculum of the vernacular schools emerged from the merchant culture and was designed to prepare sons of merchants and craftsmen for their future working lives [Grendler, 1990]. There was another parallel set of schools, the Latin (either scholastic or humanist) schools, where the sons of the privileged were taught in Latin.…”

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THE MARKET FOR LUCA PACIOLI'S SUMMA ARITHMETICA

Sangster

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McCarthy

2008

Accounting Historians Journal

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This paper looks at an aspect of Luca Pacioli and his Summa Arithmetica that has not previously been explored in detail – the market for which he wrote the book. In order to do so, it follows a path identified by two clues in the bookkeeping treatise as to the nature of this market that modern eyes, unaware of how life was in late 15th century Italy, have missed. After discussing the curriculum taught in schools at that time, this paper considers a range of possible markets for which the book may have been written. The paper concludes that it was written primarily for, and sold mainly to, merchants who used the book as a reference text, as a source of pleasure from the mathematical puzzles it contained, and as an aid for the education of their sons.

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Schooling in Western Europe

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Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of The Printing Press *

Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of The Printing Press *

The Katateeb Al-Bidoon Initiative: Repurposing the Past to Build a Transformative Future

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