| Description |
1 online resource (318 pages). |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 207
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Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 207.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Crystallography to Pedagogy -- 3 Play, Building and Gestalten -- 4 The Languages of Functionalized Blocks -- 5 The Shaping of Modularity -- 6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- List of Figures |
| Summary |
Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning and working at kindergartens, schools, universities and companies. How did building blocks, which were primarily established as toys for children, come to be practical materials used in professional and educational settings?This study explores the historical implications of particular sets of building blocks in the interdisciplinary consolidation and transformation of techniques, materials, discourses and subjects. By mapping the genealogy of building blocks from Fröbel's »gifts« to their current systematization as interlocked blocks, this study proposes that building blocks should be understood not exclusively as concrete objects, but as the materiality of a combinatorial program, which delineates a modular system characterized by a code of composition, a context-neutrality and a semantic component. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Blocks (Toys)
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Blocks (Toys) |
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Education -- Philosophy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. |
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Electronic books.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Original 3837647811 9783837647815 (OCoLC)1099999096 |
| ISBN |
383944781X |
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9783839447819 (electronic book) |
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3837647811 |
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9783837647815 |
| Standard No. |
10.14361/9783839447819 |
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