Learning for Work

How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity

Connie Goddard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08814-8 (ISBN)

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Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated to teaching a balanced combination of practical and academic skills. Connie Goddard uses the CMTS as a door into America’s early era of industrial education and the transformative idea of “learning to do.” Rooting her account in John Dewey’s ideas, Goddard moves from early nineteenth century supporters of the union of learning and labor to the interconnected histories of CMTS, New Jersey’s Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, North Dakota’s Normal and Industrial School, and related programs elsewhere. Goddard analyzes the work of movement figures like abolitionist Theodore Weld, educators Calvin Woodward and Booker T. Washington, social critic W.E.B. Du Bois, Dewey himself, and his influential Chicago colleague Ella Flagg Young. The book contrasts ideas about manual training held by advocate Nicholas Murray Butler with those of opponent William Torrey Harris and considers overlooked connections between industrial education and the Arts and Crafts Movement.

An absorbing merger of history and storytelling, Learning for Work looks at the people who shaped industrial education while offering a provocative vision of realizing its potential today.

Connie Goddard is a journalist and independent scholar who has coauthored two previous books about Chicago.

Acknowledgments

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	26.09.2024
Zusatzinfo	31 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-08814-X / 025208814X
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08814-8 / 9780252088148
Zustand	Neuware