Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780252088148

Related ISBNs:

9780252046049

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press

Date of Addition:

10/30/24

Copyrighted By:

the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Education, Social Studies, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

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