History of Ideas of Latin Verb `educare' and `educere'

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530954
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educaion
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University (2013-2015); Kobe University (2012)
• Principal Investigator: SHIROZU Hironobu 北海道大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (90322198)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: educare / ラテン語 / 用例分析 / 用例データベース / 教育概念史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This reserch project is buiding a database of citations of the Latin verb, educare and educere, which arranges authors, works, references and contexts. Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina on line is utilized for the purpose. As a result, more than 500 quotations of educare could be found in the Latin Classics. A large number of them are mentioned in two kind of domains: agriculture and Latin grammar. In the text of Columella's De Re Rustica, educare means nurturing of domestic animals and fowls. In another text of Nonius Marcellus' De Compendiosa Doctorina, the difference between educare and educere is stressed, the former is nourishing and the latter is takind something out. It is interesting that Latin grammarians in the late antiquity cited diverse passages from Varro, Plautus, Vergil and so on.

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西洋教育史