英国都铎时期大学教育的世俗化

英国大学教育在都铎王朝(1485-1603)统治时期发生了显著的世俗化改变:世俗王权取代教会成为大学的管辖者,世俗子弟成为大学学生的主体,世俗文化成为大学教育的重要内容。这种变化的主要动因是人文主义思潮的浸润,宗教改革的推动,国家需求的导向,经济和社会发展的促进。大学教育世俗化的影响是积极的,它带来了大学制度的变革,顺应并引导了社会的发展,促进了科学教育的勃兴。

The secularization of university education in the Tudor period

The university education in Tudor England (1485-1603) did undergo a sea change in terms of secularization, which was represented by the fact that the Crown began to exercise its intervention over university affairs, its children became the main group of university students, and its culture was as important centent of university education. The main cause of the change can be summarized as the influence of spreading humanistic ideology, the promotion of the Reformation, the growing demand of state interest, and the boost of social and economic development. The educational secularization is of crucial significance: the educational secularization offered opportunities for institutional reform within the university machinery; the educational secularization not only conformed with but also steered English social development, and fostered the burgeon and flourishing of scientific study in English universities.