Intelligent Hands asks why craft and creative education have declined in schools, why graduates reach the workplace with so few hand skills, and where the idea came from that office work deserves more money and status than work done with the hands.
Written by Charlotte Abrahams and Katy Bevan, it looks at the history that led here and argues that hand skills are crucial in education and for lifelong learning. Paperback, 170 x 240 mm.
A book for teachers, parents and anyone who has heard making dismissed as no more than a nice hobby.
Katy Bevan · Quickthorn BooksIntelligent Hands asks why craft and creative education have declined in schools, why graduates reach the workplace with so few hand skills, and where the idea came from that office work deserves more money and status than work done with the hands.
Written by Charlotte Abrahams and Katy Bevan, it looks at the history that led here and argues that hand skills are crucial in education and for lifelong learning. Paperback, 170 x 240 mm.
A book for teachers, parents and anyone who has heard making dismissed as no more than a nice hobby.
Katy Bevan publishes books about making from Stroud: on darning and mending, rag rugs, stitched social history and an artist blacksmith who changed his craft. Every title is printed in the UK in a small run, on recycled or FSC-certified paper, with no plastic on the cover.
Katy Bevan publishes books about making from Stroud: on darning and mending, rag rugs, stitched social history and an artist blacksmith who changed his craft. Every title is printed in the UK in a small run, on recycled or FSC-certified paper, with no plastic on the cover.
