One of the reasons that wood working is such an excellent craft for integration in school curriculum is that wood itself is such an excellent material for scientific investigation. Working with wood involves direct study of the material and the diverse species available for use. While crafting something from wood, direct powers of observation are cultivated. Two steps out of doors can lead those powers of observation directly into the woods and study of our natural environment.The page scanned above is from Otto Salomon's Teacher's Handbook of Slöjd, translated from Swedish and published in the US in 1904.
Doug,
ReplyDeleteA source for Otto Salomon's Teacher's Handbook of Slöjd,can be found at :
http://www.evenfallstudios.com/woodworks_library/woodworks_library.html
and let just say a BUNCH of other book in pdf. you and other people would like for your colection of resource books. Another sloyd they have there is B.B. Hoffman's The Sloyd System of Wood Working (1892)
Joe