Learning as Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180

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Learning as Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180 is written by Micol Long and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004466495 (ISBN 10) and 9789004466494 (ISBN 13).

In this study, Micol Long looks at Latin letters written in Western Europe between 1070 and 1180 to reconstruct how monks and nuns learned from each other in a continuous, informal and reciprocal way during their daily communal life. The book challenges the common understanding of education as the transmission of knowledge via a hierarchical master–disciple learning model and shows how knowledge was also shared, exchanged, jointly processed and developed. Long presents a new and more complicated picture of reciprocal knowledge exchanges, which could be horizontal and bottom-up as well as vertical, and where the same individuals could assume different educational roles depending on the specific circumstances and on the learning contents. See inside the book.