Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946

by Herbert M. Kliebard

In this trenchant interpretation of the rise of vocational education, Herbert M. Kliebard explains how Americans turned to public schools for answers to the problems of an increasingly urban, industrial society. Tracing the evolution of job training as an educational ideal, Kliebard analyzes the construction of vocationalism through three overlapping but distinctive stages. In the first stage, manual training is promoted as a pedagogical reform...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807738662
• ISBN13: 9780807738665
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"