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Peer reviewedPannabecker, John R. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1992
Analyzes the description of letterpress printing technology in the "Encyclopedie" of Diderot and d'Alembert. Examines how the authors distilled information about mechanical arts from craft culture, the shop, and traditional apprenticeship practices. (SK)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Craft Workers, Encyclopedias, Industrial Arts
Download full textSchenck, John P. – 1995
John Runkle, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), viewed the Moscow Imperial Technical School exhibit at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 and saw the Russian method of manual training as the answer to the dilemma of combining theory and practice in engineering instruction. On August 17, 1876, shops in which…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational History, Industrial Arts, International Educational Exchange
Proffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1929
The general shop is a form of instructional organization for offering work in a variety of shop activities. It is an outgrowth of the general recognition of the need for provision in the school curriculum of exploratory and developmental types of experiences for children of approximately the junior high school age. It also meets an outstanding…
Descriptors: Shop Curriculum, Junior High Schools, Small Schools, Vocational Education
