The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children''s Literature, 17621860
English
By (author): Elizabeth Fabry Massa Hoiem Giordano Di Veglia Melania Franzese
Elizabeth Massa Hoiem argues that the combination of reading and writing with manual tinkering and scientific observation promoted in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain produced new forms of mechanical literacy, competencies that were essential in an industrial era. As work was repositioned as play, wealthy children were encouraged to do tasks in the classroom that poor children performed for wages, while working-class children honed skills that would be crucial to their social advancement as adults.
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