Scientific Sloyd | by Anna Molander
"Sloyd" is the verbal expression for a combined mental and manual training along correct pedagogical lines. Its purpose is a distinct educational one in opposition to the merely domestic and mechanical industries. The word "Sloyd" is derived from the Swedish language.
| Title | Scientific Sloyd |
| Author | Anna Molander |
| Publisher | C. W. Bardeen |
| Year | 1902 |
| Copyright | 1902, Anna Molander |
| Amazon | Scientific sloyd |
Scientific Sloyd. A New Original System, Founded On Geometrical Principles
For Teachers Colleges, And For Primary, Elementary, And Grammar Schools
By
Anna Molander
Graduate of a State Normal College in Finland. Certificated at the Pedagogical Examination of the Imperial University in Helsingfors City, Finland. Formerly Organizing Teacher of various branches of Sloyd in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and North Carolina State schools for the blind, U. S. A., and at the Royal Normal College for the blind and the Whiteland's Teachers College in London, England. Diploma as a Designer, conferred by the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, in Chicago.
Syracuse, N. Y.
C. W. Bardeen, Publisher 1902
Copyright, 1902, by Anna Molander
Part I - General Comments- What Sloyd Means Sloyd is the verbal expression for a combined mental and manual training along correct pedagogical lines. Its purpose is a distinct educational one in opposition to the merely do...
- The History Of Sloyd
- The practical sloyd actually dates back to that time, when the human being had acquired the ability to place the tips of the other four fingers against the point of the thumb, though at that time it s...
- Age Of The Pupils
- If the pupils have had previous kindergarten training, they may begin with my Sloyd system at the age of seven, but if their fingers are totally untrained, then they must wait until they are nine, or ...
- The Sloyd Room
- The Sloyd room should be nothing of a workshop. It should not under any circumstances be in the basement floor, as still is the case on many places, being a reminiscence from the workshop ideas of...
- Work Benches
- If the class-room already is supplied with common work benches they will do for the purpose, but if not, then I would prefer the following arrangement: From common timber 1 1/2 inches thick and 16 in...
- Position While Working
- The higher work benches are intended for those of the pupils who do their work in a standing position, and the lower for those who are sitting while working. For I do not believe in a method that comp...
- Wood
- Little children can not be expected themselves to prepare out of a log by means of the axe and the jack plane the required material for their work. They must get the wood ready prepared from a saw mil...
- Tools
- There is still left not only in the Manual Training systems but also in some of the Sloyd systems, a trace from the past in the notion that children should be forced to accomplish their wood work by m...
- Drawing
- Every pupil should have a drawing book, in which the geometrical design for each piece of work is drawn up. Geometry is the foundation for my whole system, and the geometrical figures go through all t...
- Standard I. The First Year's Course. Four Hours Weekly. 25 Models. Age 7-8
- When the square has been demonstrated on the black-board and drawn up by the pupils in their drawing books, it is with guidance of the try-square drawn upon the wood, which is clamped above the cut ou...
- Standard II. The Second Year's Course. Four Hours Weekly. 25 Models. Age 8-9
- 1. When the children are going to draw up a hexagon I do not of course tell them only to mechanically take the length of the radius and divide up the circumference into six equal parts. But I tell the...
- Standard III. Third Year's Course. Four Hours Weekly. 20 Models. Age 9-10
- For this Standard the same principal geometrical figures are used as in the previous Standards. But now the pupils begin with piercing work. All the different sorts of drills are here used to great ad...
- Standard IV. Fourth Year's Course. Four Hours Weekly. 15 Models. Age 10-11
- Here the third dimension comes in, i. e., the height. This Standard is a combination and a repetition of the geometrical figures of the first Standard. For this Standard as well as for the following S...
- Standard V. Fifth Year's Course. Four Hours Weekly. 20 Models. Age 11-12
- At this Standard the pupils should begin to study - in connection with botany - the quality of different kinds of wood. They may also at this stage be intrusted with the care of the tools, and learn ...
- Standard VI. Sixth Year's Course. Three Hours Weekly. 15 Models. Age 12-13
- This Standard is a combination and a repetition of the figures of Standard III. The pupils will at this stage learn mounting for fixing on locks, hinges, etc. They should now also learn how to sharpen...
- Standard VII. Seventh Year's Course. Three Hours Weekly. 15 Models. Age 13-14
- Here some parts of the joinery are executed by means of several kinds of wood construction, such as mortise- and tenon-joints, halving and dovetailing. As the chisel is a very dangerous tool for a chi...
- Conclusion
- As will be seen from the above review, my system in wood Sloyd is especially based upon geometrical principles, and in that way it is essentially different from all other existing Sloyd systems. It i...
- Tools Required For A Class Of Ten Pupils
- 6 Jack planes, Adjustable by screw and assorted sizes. 6 Smoothing planes, 12 Block planes, 3 Scraper planes, 2 Rabbit planes, one straight and one curve...
- Other Implements Required
- A mounted grindstone with treadle and handle, about 14 inches in diameter and 3 inches thick. The trough under the grindstone should be supplied with a tap, so the children can easily empty the water ...
- A Few Words Upon "Manual Training "
- All children are naturally practically disposed and want to turn to immediate use the fruit of their labor. To postpone their enjoying of these fruits until an indeterminable Future is to divert the...
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