Craft Learning as Perceptual Transformation: Getting 'The Feel' in the Wooden Boat Workshop

by Tom Martin

Through an examination of three wooden boat workshops on the East coast of the United States, this volume explores how craftspeople interpret their tools and materials during work, and how such perception fits into a holistic conception of practical skill. The author bases his findings on first-person fieldwork as a boat builder's apprentice, during which he recorded his changing sensory experience as he learned the basics of the trade. The book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030642828
• ISBN13: 9783030642822
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"