"Founded in 1883 on Chicago's south side, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated to teaching practical skills to students. 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 supporters of the union of learning and labor to the interconnected histories of CMTS, New Jersey's Black-oriented Manual Training and ...
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"Founded in 1883 on Chicago's south side, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated to teaching practical skills to students. 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 supporters of the union of learning and labor to the interconnected histories of CMTS, New Jersey's Black-oriented Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth (MTIS), North Dakota's white-oriented Manual Training School, and other institutions. Goddard also analyzes the work of movement figures like Jonathan Baldwin Turner and Theodore Weld, cofounders of an influential group dedicated to promoting industrial education; Chicagoan Ella Flagg Young, one of Dewey's influences and an overlooked advocate for vocational education; and Dewey himself, an important thinker in industrial education who nonetheless neglected CMTS when he oversaw it at the University of Chicago. 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"--
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