{"title":"Latin and Greek in English Primary Schools – seedlings of a classical education","authors":"S. Hunt","doi":"10.1017/s2058631023000673","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This article describes some of the main features of classical languages and history learning at the primary school level in England at the current time. It briefly examines the context and education policy background and government and teachers' beliefs in the value and status of classical subjects, especially the Latin language as an aid to learning other languages and as a support for developing and improving students' English literacy. There is some overlap with the literature review co-authored by Holmes-Henderson and Kelly for the British government (Holmes-Henderson and Kelly, 2022) and a recent piece by myself about provision of teaching and resources in the Bulletin of the Council of University Classics Departments (Hunt, 2022a). I hope to develop further some of these ideas and draw out some discussions about resources, pedagogy and learning aims for possible future directions of classical languages learning at the primary level.","PeriodicalId":53809,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classics Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Classics Teaching","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s2058631023000673","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article describes some of the main features of classical languages and history learning at the primary school level in England at the current time. It briefly examines the context and education policy background and government and teachers' beliefs in the value and status of classical subjects, especially the Latin language as an aid to learning other languages and as a support for developing and improving students' English literacy. There is some overlap with the literature review co-authored by Holmes-Henderson and Kelly for the British government (Holmes-Henderson and Kelly, 2022) and a recent piece by myself about provision of teaching and resources in the Bulletin of the Council of University Classics Departments (Hunt, 2022a). I hope to develop further some of these ideas and draw out some discussions about resources, pedagogy and learning aims for possible future directions of classical languages learning at the primary level.
本文描述了当前英国小学古典语言和历史学习的一些主要特点。它简要地考察了背景和教育政策背景以及政府和教师对古典学科的价值和地位的信念,特别是拉丁语作为学习其他语言的辅助和作为发展和提高学生英语素养的支持。这与Holmes-Henderson和Kelly共同为英国政府撰写的文献综述(Holmes-Henderson和Kelly, 2022)和我最近在《大学古典学系理事会公报》(Bulletin of the Council of University Classics department, Hunt, 2022a)上发表的一篇关于教学和资源提供的文章有一些重叠。我希望进一步发展这些想法,并对小学阶段古典语言学习的资源、教学法和学习目标进行一些讨论。