The Dimension of Care in American Woodshop Class and Wood Play in Schools
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| Title: | The Dimension of Care in American Woodshop Class and Wood Play in Schools |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Elliott Kuecker |
| Source: | Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. 2025 22(2):205-226. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 22 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Shop Curriculum, Woodworking, Caring, Identification (Psychology), Attachment Behavior, Play, Public Schools, Student Behavior, Manipulative Materials |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15505170.2023.2262942 |
| ISSN: | 1550-5170 2156-8154 |
| Abstract: | This article posits that within American woodworking and wood play school curriculum--across time periods and age ranges--there is a hidden-in-plain-site dimension of care toward non-human things, like tools and wood. Analyzing American teacher guidebooks, curriculum descriptions, educational research journals, technical education magazines, newsletters, school textbooks, and other sources, this study describes how the dimension of care is revealed, despite not being named as an explicit educational purpose. An ethics of care is theorized in this study as quotidian habits of maintenance and reverence toward non-human things. Emphasizing this style of care provides a new way of seeing American wood shop class, and related lessons, away from their vocational backdrop, and provides current educators with inspiration on how woodworking and wood play could be integrated into curriculum concerned with promoting a less anthropocentric ethics in the classroom. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2026 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1496054 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This article posits that within American woodworking and wood play school curriculum--across time periods and age ranges--there is a hidden-in-plain-site dimension of care toward non-human things, like tools and wood. Analyzing American teacher guidebooks, curriculum descriptions, educational research journals, technical education magazines, newsletters, school textbooks, and other sources, this study describes how the dimension of care is revealed, despite not being named as an explicit educational purpose. An ethics of care is theorized in this study as quotidian habits of maintenance and reverence toward non-human things. Emphasizing this style of care provides a new way of seeing American wood shop class, and related lessons, away from their vocational backdrop, and provides current educators with inspiration on how woodworking and wood play could be integrated into curriculum concerned with promoting a less anthropocentric ethics in the classroom. |
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| ISSN: | 1550-5170 2156-8154 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15505170.2023.2262942 |
