Gain Access To Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned To Make Sense Of The Material World By Sarah Anne Carter Disseminated As Pamphlet

interesting book. It made me think about current teaching methods particularly in this time of distance education while reading aboutth Century teaching practices, Beautifully illustrated. A lovely book investigatingth century object lessons, for all their pedagogical benefits and problems, I read this in one sitting one sleepless night, I take the authors point that the phrase Object Lessons has such broad currency that the topic is hard to research and I think the title of her book may mislead some readers looking for a broader discussion than this detailed study of a specific pedagogical strategy used in US schools in the Cth provides.
It is no less valuable for that, Useful illustrations and reflective essay at the end, Object Lessons: How NineteenthCentury Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material thingsobjects and pictureswere used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship,

and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenthcentury United States.
For modern scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract, But in thes, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across the country, Object lessons helped children to learn about the world through their sensestouching and seeing rather than memorizing and repeatingleading to new modes of classifying and comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of objects, pictures, and even people.
In this book, Sarah Carter argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and comprehend the information in thingsfrom a typemetal fragment to a whalebone sample.
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over fifty images and a fullcolor insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of nineteenthcentury material, cultural, and intellectual life.

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