Intelligent hands : why making is a skill for life /
Abrahams, Charlotte,
Intelligent hands : why making is a skill for life / Charlotte Abrahams, Katy Bevan ; foreword by Jay Blades. - 112 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
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 work should be rewarded more with money and status than that of a blue-collar worker? 'Intelligent Hands' looks at this phenomenon, the historical precedents that led us here and why hand skills are crucial in education and for lifelong learning.
9781739316020 (pbk.) : No price
Handicraft.
Crafts.
Intelligent hands : why making is a skill for life / Charlotte Abrahams, Katy Bevan ; foreword by Jay Blades. - 112 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
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 work should be rewarded more with money and status than that of a blue-collar worker? 'Intelligent Hands' looks at this phenomenon, the historical precedents that led us here and why hand skills are crucial in education and for lifelong learning.
9781739316020 (pbk.) : No price
Handicraft.
Crafts.
