Development of Medieval Education in Western Europe

Abstract

The existence of a pedagogical tradition in the Middle Ages, as well as in other historical periods, the formation of pedagogical ideas, and the implementation of the educational process are associated with the structural and functional structure of society, the type of social inheritance of subjects of the educational process. Medieval pedagogy has its own characteristic features, since, firstly, the pedagogical traditions of this era are not closed in time, they have their own historical past, established in their influence on modern Western European pedagogy. Secondly, a person in the Middle Ages self-determined not with ethnicity, but with local (village, city, family), as well as by confessional sign, i.e. belonging to the clergy or laity. Both in educational material and in the organization of special educational institutions, there is a synthesis of reality with the new needs of society. The ideal of medieval education is the rejection of the comprehensively developed personality of the Antiquity era, the formation of a Christian person. The new ideal of education determined the main European pedagogical tradition of the early Middle Ages (5th-10th centuries) - the Christian tradition, which also determined the educational system of the era.