Education of Things

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Education of Things

Mechanical Literacy in British Children's Literature, 1762-1860

Hoiem, Elizabeth Fabry Massa

University of Massachusetts Press

01/2024

328

Mole

Inglês

9781625347558

15 a 20 dias

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List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1
What Children Grasp
The Tangible Properties of Objects

Chapter 2
Moving Bodies
Manual Labor and Children's Play in Mechanical Philosophy Books

Chapter 3
"The Empire of Man over Material Things"
Children's Books on Manufacturing and Trade

Chapter 4
Self-Governing Machines
Automata and Autonomy in Maria Edgeworth's Fiction

Chapter 5
"Knowledge That Shall Be Power in Their Hands"
Radical Grammars for Working-Class Readers

Conclusion
William Lovett's Case of Moveable Type

Notes
Index
Children’s literature; Victorian education; Education in Great Britain; British Children's literature; 18th-century education; reading and writing history; literacy and industrialization; education history; early children’s science books; history of children’s learning; working-class literacy; children’s book history; history of literacy practices; science education for children; 18th-century Britain education; industrial revolution education; education in industrial era; toys 18th century; early educational games; class and childhood education; rich and poor children education; children’s education and class; domestic education practices; inequality in early education; scholarly book on children’s literature; literacy, labor, and learning; mechanical literacy in education; history of children’s learning tools; material culture and literacy; eighteenth-century childhood education; learning through objects; early science education in Britain; educational toys in history; industrial age learning practices; children’s books and science; object-based learning in history; tactile learning in literature; childhood and industrial revolution; early STEM education history; print culture and children's books; mechanical play and learning; intersection of work and play; early experiments in education; hands-on learning in the 18th century; cultural history of children’s books; object lessons in early education; print and object interaction in learning