Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity by Goddard, Connie

Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity

Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated to...
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Author: Connie Goddard
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Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity by Goddard, Connie

Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity

$113.25

Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity

$113.25
Author: Connie Goddard
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: Connie Goddard
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780252088148

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


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