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Technology, Literacy, and Early Industrial Expansion in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Edward W. Stevens Jr.
Edward W. Stevens Jr.*
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College of Education, Ohio University
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In the early nineteenth century educators interested in the mechanized basis for American manufacturing began to experiment with and institutionalize, in mechanics' institutes and the periodic press, an alternative form of literacy based on a knowledge of mechanics and the material culture of manufacturing. This technical literacy was built along three basic dimensions: the relationships between mechanical knowledge and manufacturing; the linkages among the schemata for technical, liberal, and scientific learning; and the dissemination of technical knowledge in various media.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 523 - 544
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Copyright © 1990 by the History of Education Society 

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