The grammar of the machine : technical literacy and early industrial expansion in the United States /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stevens, Edward, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1995]
Temas:
Technical education > United States > History.
Enseignement technique > États-Unis > Histoire.
EDUCATION > General.
Technical education
Bildungswesen
Industrialisierung
Technisch onderwijs.
Technische ontwikkeling.
Industrialisatie.
Enseignement technique > États-Unis > 19e siècle.
United States
USA
Educational institutions > Curriculum > Technology > History
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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