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Record Nr.

UNINA9910516003203321

Autore

Auer Christian

Titolo

The Production and Dissemination of Knowledge in Scotland : La production et la diffusion des savoirs en Écosse / / Lesley Graham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Besançon, : Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021

ISBN

2-84867-895-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Annales littéraires

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownIan

CivardiChristian

CrawfordRonald

FindlayRosie

GirardRomain

GrahamLesley

Juillet-GarzónSabrina

MckimAnne

RobelGilles

RobertsonJames

TranTri

WelsteadWilliam

Soggetti

Literature, British Isles

éducation

littérature écossaise

Ecosse

histoire de l’Ecosse

Scotland

education

history of Scotland

Scottish literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Sommario/riassunto

Education and learning have traditionally been areas in which the national specificity has been promoted and asserted in Scotland and apparently with good reason since for several centuries the Scottish population could claim to be the most thoroughly educated in the world. This achievement was the consequence of the nation’s love affair with the transmission of basic knowledge through schooling and intellectual inquiry which started with the Reformation and culminated in the Scottish Enlightenment.  As a whole, this collection aims to show some small part of the breadth of knowledge created in Scotland and disseminated in and outwith the country. This broad field of interest echoes the wider range of subjects traditionally taught in Scottish schools. It attempts to highlight what is distinctive about the Scottish approach to knowledge acquisition in general while also presenting the areas in which this endeavour overlaps with similar concerns in the rest of the world. The overall impression created is that of a country consistently confident in its ability to create useful knowledge; capable of applying that knowledge at home and of sharing it with others.