Amos Bronson Alcott: A Case for Romantic Education

Auteurs

  • Jaime Costa Universidade do Minho, Portugal.

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.23945

Mots-clés :

Education, Transcendentalism, Reform

Résumé

As one of its ideologues, Amos Bronson Alcott constitutes one of the most relevant figures of Transcendentalism or American Romanticism. Confronted with the radical changes of the times he was living in, Alcott will come up with his most daring proposals in the realm of education. The objective of this article is to place Alcott’s reformation drive within its philosophical context and to reveal his singular position. Self-awareness, in perspective with nature, constitutes an unavoidable previous step to any educational intent. It is from here that the most useful learning takes place, that which allows for establishing a relationship between the material world and the spiritual world. Alcott identifies the general laws of thought, as series of Maxims, that must at all times guide the instructor. Due to the divine nature of human beings, education will, in the end, be concerned with self-education.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Jaime Costa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal.

Jaime Costa received his PhD. from the University of Salamanca, Spain. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho where he teaches American Literature and American Society and Culture. He is also member of the board of the MA program in English Language, Literature and Culture.

 

His work has covered a wide range of American topics including: Literature, history and the arts and is presently writing a book on American Literary History. His current research projects focus on the historical process of creation of an American identity through the arts.

 

He has recently edited the book Contra a Guerra by the American essayist and social critic Randolph Bourne.

Références

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Alcott, A. B., (1938). In O. Shepard (Ed.), The Journals of Bronson Alcott. Little Brown and Company.

Coleridge, S. T., (1983). In J. Engell and W. Jackson Bate (Eds.), The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.Princeton University Press.

Dahlstrand, F. C., (1982). Amos Bronson Alcott. Associated University Presses.

Emerson, R. W., (1984). Selected Essays. Penguin Books.

Myerson, J., (2000). Transcendentalism: A Reader. Oxford University Press.

Wordsworth, W., (1936). Wordsworth, Poetical Works. Oxford University Press.

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Publiée

2023-06-23

Comment citer

Costa, J. (2023). Amos Bronson Alcott: A Case for Romantic Education. Journal Portugais De L’Éducation, 36(1), e23021. https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.23945

Numéro

Vol. 36 No 1 (2023): janvier - juin

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Artigos

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(c) Tous droits réservés Jaime Costa 2023

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