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Muscles, Morals and Mind: craft apprenticeship and the formation of person (2008)
Journal Article
Marchand, T. H. (2008). Muscles, Morals and Mind: craft apprenticeship and the formation of person. British Journal of Educational Studies, 56(3), 245-271. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8527.2008.00407.x

The paper considers apprenticeship as a model of education that both teaches technical skills and provides the grounding for personal formation. The research presented is based on long-term anthropological fieldwork with minaret builders in Yemen, mu... Read More about Muscles, Morals and Mind: craft apprenticeship and the formation of person.

Modernity's Artisanal Roots. [Review of] The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution by Pamela Smith (2008)
Journal Article
Marchand, T. H. (2008). Modernity's Artisanal Roots. [Review of] The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution by Pamela Smith. The Senses and Society, 3(1), 91-96. https://doi.org/10.2752/174589308X266506

Copernicus and Vesalius are commonly regarded as the founding minds of the Scientific Revolution, which so radically altered European conceptions of the universe and the human body within it. In its course, Aristotelian theories of matter, movement a... Read More about Modernity's Artisanal Roots. [Review of] The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution by Pamela Smith.