Pedagogy & Education

Learning for Work

Editorial: University of Illinois Press

ISBN: 9780252088148

Pub: 2024-09-09

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.”