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iv. education and mental culture.
1913 for those schools that impart instruction in sloyd to boys was 390 000
kronor.
The term, "Swedish Educational Sloyd", is used to denote the
educational System and method devised and put in practice at the Nääs Sloyd
Training College (Nääs slöjdlärar seminarium), at which the large
majority of the men and women now engaged in teaching woodwork sloyd
received their training. Sloyd is indeed also taught at all the training
colleges for elementary school teachers and, at special sloyd courses
organized by several of the "läns" (provinces) for the benefit of the teachers.
These courses are often entrusted to the superintendence of one of the
Government domestic sloyd instructors.
The Nääs Sloyd Training College was founded by August Abrahamson
(1817—98), a landed proprietor at Nääs, some thirty kilometers from
Gothenburg. During his life-time he provided the means for the support
of the institution and munificently endowed it at his death. A
supplementary grant is now made annually out of the public purse towards its
maintenance. The origin of the College dates back to 1874, when the
sloyd school for boys that had been opened at Nääs two years previously
was extended to include a higher division. This consisted, to begin with,
of a year’s course of training for intending sloyd teachers pure and simple;
that arrangement continued until the year 1882, when the last course of
that type was held. Four years earlier an experiment had been made
with shorter sloyd courses, of about five or six weeks in length, adapted
for elementary school teaohers in general. That proved a success and
the present organization of the Training College is based in the main
upon the plan then inaugurated. Otto Salomon (1849—1907) was the
superintendent of the College from the start, and he it was that devised
or evolved the Swedish Educational Sloyd System, the so-called Nääs
System, and created the Nääs Sloyd Training College. At the present
time two sloyd courses are held at the College each year during the
summer months, each of them of six weeks’ duration. Latterly there have
also been courses arranged for the training of games teachers and cookery
mistresses as well as courses for gymnastic instructors; classes have been
given too in drawing, modelling and gardening.1
The teaching is given free of charge to such attenders of the courses as hold
appointments at any of the public schools or at schools for the mentally
defective. Others who avail themselves of the instruction at Nääs are charged
25 kronor each for one course, and 50 kronor if they hail from abroad. Certain
fixed fees are payable for board, lodging, and materials. The instruction
imparted in sloyd embraces on the one hand lectures and talks on educational
sloyd with special reference to its system, method, and history, and on the other
hand drawing and execution of a series of woodwork models, involving a carefully
graduated succession of exercises in the use and handling of tools and material.
The total number of those who have attended the Nääs Courses from 1875
1 In the session 1912—13 there were also some winter courses held, at which instruction
in weaving, needlework etc. was imported.
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