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Au xviiie siècle, “siècle pédagogue” par excellence, le personnage de l’enseignant cherche son entrée dans la littérature. Sa représentation participe de toutes les questions sur l’éducation et l’instruction du prince et des citoyens. Sur le terrain, celui à qui incombe la tâche difficile de l’"Institution de la jeunesse" est en quête de considération. Tandis qu’on songe à le former, une représentation idéale du pédagogue se forge bien avant la naissance de l’Éducation Nationale et le fossé entre les attentes et la réalité se creuse... Qu’y a-t-il de plus épineux que l’image du pédagogue et la réflexion sur les finalités de son action ? Le xviiie siècle met en évidence les implications sociales et politiques des systèmes pédagogiques, qui ne se réduisent pas à la relation maître- élève. Dans cet ouvrage fondé pour l’essentiel sur les textes d’écrivains dits mineurs, premiers lecteurs de ceux dont - comme Rousseau - l’universalité est reconnue depuis long- temps, le lecteur trouvera matière au questionnement inhérent à toute réflexion sur l’éducation.

Education --- Teachers in literature. --- History --- pédagogie --- gouverné --- éducation --- gouvernant --- enseignant --- roi --- peuple

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Education in literature --- Fiction --- Teachers in literature --- French fiction --- French fiction --- Schools in literature

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Education in literature --- Fiction --- Teachers in literature --- French fiction --- French fiction --- Schools in literature

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How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children. Professors are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists who fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of the male, mad, muddlehead, called Professor SomethingDumb, is formed in humorous yet pejorative fashion. This Element provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature, questioning the book culture which promotes the enforcement of stereotypes regarding intellectual expertise in children's media. The Element is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.

Children's literature --- College teachers in literature. --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Stereotype (Psychology) in literature

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Anglo-Saxons valued education yet understood how precarious it could be, alternately bolstered and undermined by fear, desire, and memory. They praised their teachers in official writing, but composed and translated scenes of instruction that revealed the emotional and cognitive complexity of learning. Irina Dumitrescu explores how early medieval writers used fictional representations of education to explore the relationship between teacher and student. These texts hint at the challenges of teaching and learning: curiosity, pride, forgetfulness, inattention, and despair. Still, these difficulties are understood to be part of the dynamic process of pedagogy, not simply a sign of its failure. The book demonstrates the enduring concern of Anglo-Saxon authors with learning throughout Old English and Latin poems, hagiographies, histories, and schoolbooks.

English literature --- Education in literature. --- Teachers in literature. --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. --- Schools in literature --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain --- History