Leon Lauraire, FSC
ABSTRACT
This essay was prepared to be delivered at a conference in the Aula Magna at the FSC Casa Generalizia on May 12, 2015.
In the sixteenth century, the Renaissance humanists, the Catholic Church, and the Protestant Reformers multiplied calls for initiatives to develop the provision of schools in Europe. This created an unprecedented growth in schools in every country.
We shall not attempt to retrace here in detail the forms that this school movement took. Instead we shall summarize briefly the school situation familiar to John Baptist de La Salle in France at the end of the seventeenth century, a situation which continued up until the French Revolution in 1789.
KEYWORDS
Pedagogy; Fraternity; Lasallian
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About the Author
Leon Lauraire, FSC
Brother Léon Lauraire is a noted Lasallian scholar on the topic of The Conduct of the Christian Schools. Once the Director of Lasallian Studies at the FSC Casa Generalizia in Rome (1991-1993), his publications include: MEL Bulletin #12: Conduct of Schools, An Overall Plan of Human and Christian Education, translated by Allen Geppert (Rome, 2004); Cahiers Lasalliens #61: The Conduct of Schools, A Contextual Approach, translated by Leonard Marsh (Rome, 2001); Cahiers Lasalliens #62: The Conduct of Schools, A Pedagogical Approach, translated by Allen Geppert (Rome, 2006); Cahiers Lasalliens #63: The Conduct of Schools, A Comparative Approach, translated by Allen Geppert (Rome, 2011); and Cahiers Lasalliens #67: The Conduct of Schools, A Diachronic Approach, translated by Allen Geppert (Rome, 2014).
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