IX. Make up a plan of the text in the form of questions. X. Render the text in a written form

X. Render the text in a written form.

 

 

Unit 8

Topic: Upbringing in the period of Renaissance

 

I. Read and remember the following words and word-combinations:

the Renaissance – епоха відродження

transition – перехід

prominent changes – визначні зміни

strong willed person – вольова людина

asceticism – аскетизм

prohibition – заборона

to greet – вітати

 

II. Read and translate the following text:

 

The Renaissance – is a transition from the medieval culture to the culture of the new times. It was closely connected with the prominent changes in all spheres of life. The idea of a cheerful, strong willed spiritually and bodily person appeared. Ancient culture became the standards of behaviour, instead of the medieval asceticism. This movement is called humanism. Humanistic pedagogics was characterized by the respect to children, prohibition of corporal punishment, aspiration to perfection of child’s skills. Humanists paid much attention to physical and aesthetic upbringing, learning mother tongue, Greek and Latin languages, mathimatics, astronomy, mechanics, natural history, geography, literature, arts. They stated that children should think actively, cognize environment by themselves. The process of teaching should be attractive and interesting to them with widely used visual aids. Children should learn subjects in their mother tongue. Women had right to study in all types of schools.

The Renaissance created new original systems of education and upbringing. Two main tendencies of socializing emerged in its depths: humanistic that claimed harmonic development of a free personality, who changes society and nature, and reformative, which greeted the idea of community and limited a personality in the frames of that community, and also tried to reform Catholicism.

Pedagogics of the Renaissance created a new type of a school that oriented pupils to solve task practically. But the number of such schools was small and the idea of common education was not realized.

III. Find English equivalents for:

духовно, тілесно, направлення, прагнення, рідна мова, наочність, пізнавати, повага, навколишнє середовище, загальний, виховання, реформаторський

 

IV. Find the proper word from the text to the following definitions:

a) A period in the 14-16 c. with a great revival of interest in art, literature, learning.

b) A way of life that is simple and strict, usually because of people’s religious beliefs.

c) A belief that people can achieve happiness and fulfillment, without having a religion.

d) A kind of smth with changes and improvements to a social system, a law.

e) Smth is made up of people, who live in a particular area.

f) Involving beauty or art and people’s appreciation of beautiful things.

g) The way your parents treat you.

 

V. Find synonyms to the words:

esteem, to ban, to get to know, striving, to restrict, switch over, to appear, corporal, smth (smb) of the Middle Ages

 

VI. Answer the questions:

1. What was Renaissance connected with? What does the name “Renaissance” mean?

2. What were the main principles of humanistic pedagogics?

3. How should be the teaching process run?

4. What systems of education existed that time?

5. What were the differences between them?

 

VII. Make up a report about one of the prominent pedagogues of Renaissance period.

Don’t forget to mention his life, activity and pedagogic ideas.

VIII. Mind the following words:

to restore – відновити

an advancement – прогрес

noble – знатний