The Pedagogy of Persuasion: The Culture of the University of Pont-à-Mousson

• Autores: Joseph M. O'Keefe
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 34, Nº. 2, 1998, págs. 421-442
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper chronicles the life of a Counter-Reformation university founded by the Society of Jesus in Lorraine in 1574. It focuses especially on two phenomena that provide insight into the educational philosophy ofthejesuits: the professional schools and the printing presses. While civic leaders wanted to enhance the prestige of Lorraine by sponsoring a university with faculties of law and medicine, the Jesuits feared loss of a permeating religious ethos, a pedagogy of persuasion that leads students, faculty, nobles, clergy and the general public to embrace Roman Catholicism. The nature of the publications produced at Pont-à-Mousson attest to this unambiguous religious purpose. One must conclude that, in Europe at least, the educational project of a Jesuit university existed only as the means to a greater religious end.