Intelligent Hands: Why Making Is a Skill for Life

by Charlotte Abrahams and Katy Bevan

Recent years have seen a decline in craft and creative education in schools and a shift from practical to theoretical learning models in higher education.

Young people are leaving school with no idea that craft-based careers are even possible, and graduates of craft-based degree courses are entering the workplace with so few hand skills that their employers must train them from scratch. Where did the idea come from that white-collar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1739316029
• ISBN13: 9781739316020
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Quickthorn
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.7" x 9.5"