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Learning for work : how industrial education fostered democratic opportunity / Connie Goddard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goddard, Connie, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago Manual Training School--History.
- Chicago Manual Training School.
- Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth (Bordentown, N.J.)--History.
- Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth (Bordentown, N.J.).
- State Normal and Industrial School (Ellendale, N.D.)--History.
- State Normal and Industrial School (Ellendale, N.D.).
- Manual training--United States--History.
- Manual training.
- Technical education--United States--History.
- Technical education.
- Vocational education--United States--History.
- Vocational education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- This book explores the evolution of industrial and vocational education in the United States, focusing on key institutions and figures that shaped this movement. It examines the development of manual training and its integration with academic learning, highlighting the impact of educators like Charles Bennett and pioneers such as Theodore Weld and Jonathan Baldwin Turner. The narrative traces the establishment of schools like the Manual Training and Industrial School in New Jersey and the Chicago Manual Training School, emphasizing their role in merging practical skills with intellectual development. The book is intended for readers interested in educational history, particularly the intersection of labor and learning. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Preface : learning how the work of the world is done
- Through mind and hand to manhood
- Learning and doing arrives in Chicago
- Joining hands and heads on the Midway
- A "star of hope" defines industrial education
- The people's school on the prairie and how it grew
- Agency and efficiency : manual training becomes vocational education
- Epilogue : lessons on education and work from Bordentown and Ellendale.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252047220
- 0252047222
- OCLC:
- 1465266360
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