Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 210 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300061064
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0300163509
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9780300061062
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9780300163506
Content:
Edward Stevens, Jr., describes the important technological changes that took place in antebellum America and the challenges they posed for education. Investigating the instruction, curricula, and textbooks used in the common schools, in the mechanics' institutes, and, specifically, at the Troy Female Seminary and the Rensselaer School in upstate New York, he demonstrates how advocates of technical literacy attempted to teach new skills. Stevens shows that the tensions between the liberal and the vocational, between a culture of print and a nonverbal culture of experience, persisted in technical education through the first half of the nineteenth century but were resolved temporarily by a common moral vision.-publisher
Content:
1. Empirical Foundations for Technical Literacy: Economic Expansion, Technological Change, and Work -- 2. The Content and Pedagogy for Spatial Thinking: Drawings and Models -- 3. The Heritage of Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, and Perspective Geometry -- 4. Teaching Natural Philosophy -- 5. Mathematics Instruction -- 6. New Educational Institutions for a New Society: Schools for Mechanics -- 7. Science for Women: The Troy Female Seminary -- 8. A Precedent for Technological Education: The Rensselaer School
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-204) and index
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stevens, Edward, 1938- Grammar of the machine
Language:
English
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