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The Teaching of Classics
A comprehensive overview of the teaching of classics. The Teaching of Classics outlines how teaching of the subject has developed and arrived at its present situation and suggests strategies for the future. It addresses the teaching of the subject at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. The authors also communicate the sense of innovatory excitement that surrounds current initiative, celebrate the successes in the two major growth areas - primary and adult education - and confront the dangers that face the subject with clear-eyed realism.
- GenresClassicsNonfiction
206 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2006
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About the author
James Morwood
81 booksJames Henry Weldon Morwood was an English classicist and author. He taught at Harrow School, where he was Head of Classics, and at Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of Wadham College, and also Dean. He wrote almost thirty books, ranging from biography to translations and academic studies of Classical literature.
His best-known work is The Oxford Latin Course (1987–92, with Maurice Balme, new ed, 2012), whose popularity in the USA led to the publication of a specifically American edition in 1996. Morwood is credited with helping to ensure the survival - even flourishing - of Classical education into the twenty-first century, both in the UK and the USA.
His best-known work is The Oxford Latin Course (1987–92, with Maurice Balme, new ed, 2012), whose popularity in the USA led to the publication of a specifically American edition in 1996. Morwood is credited with helping to ensure the survival - even flourishing - of Classical education into the twenty-first century, both in the UK and the USA.
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