Workshop Speaker
Get Medieval on Them: Training Teachers into the Classical Tradition
Much pride of place is given to the modern education renewal movement, with an emphasis on introductory and summary texts to bring teachers around to the Classical Christian method of teaching. But what if there is a better way? This proposal suggests an approach to teacher training drawn from the Medieval schools and their early Modern imitators. Specific examples, such as Alfred the Great, Geert Groote, Erasmus, and John Colet, will shape the outline provided, and suggestions will be offered on how to accomplish such a bold vision in the 21st century.
Sean C. Hadley is a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv, 2017) and Faulkner University’s Great Books program (PhD, 2023). His writings have been published in outlets such as The Imaginative Conservative, Touchstone magazine, and The Hemingway Review. He has given conference talks in a variety of settings, such as the annual Repairing the Ruins education conference and the annual Spring conference of the Ciceronian Society. For fifteen years, he taught in the classical Christian classroom. Since 2023, he has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow with the Classical Education Research Lab at the University of Arkansas.