Hager, Fritz-Peter (Zürich RWG) [German version] A. Definition (CT) Pedagogy is the science of education and schooling ( Education/Culture). It can comprise philosophical, theological or empirical theories of education and erudition (associated with psychological or sociological research). In correspondence with fundamental pedagogical topics and problems, pedagogy refers to the nature and aims of education, its methods, tools and measures, its contents and approaches, as well as its anthropological and ideological foundations. Hager, Fritz-Peter (Zürich RWG) …

Krovoza, Alfred [German version] A. Prefatory Remarks (CT) Any discussion of the mnemonic tradition, i.e. its reception history, faces a dilemma. The narrow definition - an established standard in textbooks - as a mental technique to generate memoria artificialis or to optimise memoria naturalis for rhetorical practice in an oral culture (see below) excludes the greatest part of its influence, as seminal studies of the material have revealed. A wider definition, however, risks conflating mnemonics with memory in general and its manifold …

Mohr, Hubert A. Concept and Theory (CT) [German version] 1. Concept (CT) Paganism is the modern, scholarly term for the intentional resumption ('reception') and resurgence ('revitalisation', 'reconstruction') of ancient, or ethnic, religious traditions or of their constituent parts (cults, myths, symbols), insofar as these occurred outside of Christianity and Judaism, and opposed the two. The underlying concept of Judeo-Christian polemic, 'heathenism', should be distinguished from the religious-historical …