During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the American economy moved toward a manufacturing base and mass production, creating a demand for a literacy that encompassed not only the traditional alphabetic form of expression but also scientific and mathematical notation and spatial and graphic representation. How did the world of learning respond to this demand? What kinds of educational institutions, teachers, textbooks, and patterns of instruction emerged? Edward Stevens, Jr., describes the important ...
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During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the American economy moved toward a manufacturing base and mass production, creating a demand for a literacy that encompassed not only the traditional alphabetic form of expression but also scientific and mathematical notation and spatial and graphic representation. How did the world of learning respond to this demand? What kinds of educational institutions, teachers, textbooks, and patterns of instruction emerged? 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.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Fine in VG jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover with smooth blue paper over boards, in bluem green and grey illustrated jacket, 8vo. x + 210pp. Index, endnotes. Illustrations and tables throughout. Fine/VG. jacket has light abrasion and touches of surface loss at lower spine end; curl and shallow crease along upper rear edge; wear and touch of surface loss at lower front corner. Else Fine, with clean, bright, titles, colors and figures. Jacket in Brodart. 3 1/2" x 1" former prince label rear anel above edge.
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Very Good+ Very Good+ Dust Jacket. 1st printing of 1st edition, from a private collection. Tight and clean with sharp corners and unclipped dust jacket. DJ has very light rubbing, otherwise book and jacket pretty much near fine. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
