The Educational Model of the Calvinist Colleges
The Educational Model of the Calvinist Colleges

Summary/Abstract: In the early modern period (16th to 18th centuries) there worked various teachers in the alma mater according to the particularity of the College and its primary-school network (called particula in Latin). This paper analyses the roles they played in relation to each other. The curriculum, the teachers’ status, the student-teachers’ educational and tuitional effect in the alma maters of Debrecen and Sárospatak can be assessed on the basis of contemporary reference books, diaries and memoranda. The latest research results certify that not so much the teachers but rather the student-teachers had a more significant role in explaining the subject-matter of instruction the professors had delivered and in training of grouped learning. Although the textbooks and the models of teaching used in the given period are well-known, it can be demonstrated that there existed also a hidden curriculum which remained latent according to the notion of “local curriculum”, however, by means of this curriculum the students received multifaceted education.

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