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Nov 27, 2024 54 min

Learning for Work

from The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

With the industrial revolution came a revolution in the education of Americans. In this episode, Connie Goddard discusses her latest book on the industrial education system that taught Americans how to do trades, skilled labor activities, and generally find work in factories and industrial jobs. Essential Reading: Connie Goddard, Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity (2024). Recommended Reading: Kelly Ann Kolondy, Normalites: The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States (2014). Christopher J. Lucas, Teacher Education in America: Reform Agendas for the Twenty-First Century (1997). Helen Proctor and Kellie Burns, The Curriculum of the Body and the School as Clinic: Histories of Public Health and Schooling (2023).

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