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EDUCATIONAL SLOYD.
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By »Swedish educational sloyd»
is meant the system of instruction and
the method worked out at the Nfifis
Slöjdlärareseminarium, wheremost
of those Swedish male and female
teachers who impart instruction in
carpentering have received their
training. Sloyd is also taught at all
Training schools for male common school
teachers, and sloyd courses intended
for male common school teachers
have besides been arranged in
several Läns by the authorities. These
courses often stand under the
guidance of one of the Government
instructors for domestic industry.
The Nääs Slöjdlärareseminarium
(director: Otto Salomon) was founded
by August
Abrahamson(l8nproprietor of the Nääs estate — situated
30 kilometers from Gothenburg — and it is supported by his munificent
donations. It was opened in 1874 as a higher division of the sloyd
school for boys, which two years previously had been erected at Nääs.
To begin with, courses of one year’s duration were arranged for
the training of special sloyd teachers; from 1878, shorter courses
were, moreover, given for common school teachers, and, since 1882,
the instruction consists exclusively of such courses, partly for the
training of male and female sloyd teachers, partly for the training
of play-masters. Each of these courses at present lasts six weeks.
The instruction is free of cost. The courses include lectures and discussions
on the teaching of Sloyd, its educational and historical significance, and on the
arrangement of such instruction at schools, in addition to practical work in the Sloyd-room.
Especially the summer courses are attended by many male and female
teachers from foreign countries. The total number of partakers in the sloyd courses
during the period 1875/1900 amounted to 3,346, who may be divided according
to nationality as follows:
Sweden.. ................2,493
Norway....................62
Denmark................57
Iceland.............2
Finland..................65
England....................331
Scotland..................58
Ireland......................6
Netherlands............37
Belgium......................3
Germany....................24
Austria........................26
Hnngary....................17
Switzerland............3
France..........................3
Italy..............................16
Spain............................1
Russia..........................34
Roumania..............5
Servia..........................1
Bnlgaria....................9
United States... 73
Canada........................1
Brazil............................1
Argentine....................3
Chili..................................1
Uruguay........................2
Japan..............................2
India................................5
Egypt.............. 3
Cape Colony..............1
Abyssinia....................1
Thus the total number comprises 2,493 Swedes and 853 foreigners, of which
93 are from countries outside of Europe. Of the European countries the English
and Scotch stand decidely foremost, and of countries outside of Europe the
United States of America are foremost.
Otto Salomon.
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