History of Technology Education

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History of Technology Education

• By the end of the session the student should be
  able to
• Describe the type of education used to learn
  practical topics like agriculture, carpentry,
  plumbing, bricklaying and the contributions of
  Comenius and Pestalosi
• Give details of what happened in 1876 that
  changed technical education delivery
• Recognize the contributions of Della Voss,
  Runkle, and Woodward in establishing Manual
  Training.

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John Amos Comenius (1592-1670)

• Czechoslovakian
• Father of modern Pedagogy
• Advocated method of the arts-teach practical
  subjects
• Simple to complex
• Acquaintence with actual objects

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Johann Pestalozzi (1746-1827)

• Swiss
• Father of Manual Training
• Education of poor children
• Used object to teach traditional subjects
• Agriculture and manual skills
• Move from Concrete to Abstract
• From words to things or things to words

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Frederick Frobel (1782-1852)

• German- coworker of Pestalozzi
• First Kindergarten in 1837
• Learning must being with doing
• Discover, arrange invent, control (blocks, clay,
  paper, balls)

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Sloyd Movement

• From Finland and Sweden (Cygnaeus 1810-1888 and
  Solomon (1849-1907)
• Emphasis on handiwork and craft as a school
  subject
• Making useful objects, analysis of processes

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Centennial exhibition 1876
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Manual Training School
Manual training school St. Louis. www.woodworking
history.com/glossary_L.htm
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In 1909, Muskogeeans voted for a bond issue to
build a high school for African American
students. Construction began that year, and the
first class entered its halls in 1910. Its first
graduation was held in 1912. This new school
would follow an educational movement that had
been growing in popularity during the previous
decades. It was known as the manual training
method, and the high school was given the name
Manual Training High School. Manual training was
a system of education sweeping across America and
modeled after schools in Europe. It placed an
emphasis on teaching not only the fundamentals of
science, mathematics, language, literature, and
history, but also on drafting, mechanics and the
use of basic tools. The purpose was not to
provide training for specific jobs, but to give
students an understanding of basic mechanical
principles that would prepare them for a wide
range of jobs in the growing industrial sector.
It was seen as the logical progression away from
the apprenticeship system that had previously
prepared young people for the work force.
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John Daniel RunkleBorn Root, New York on
October 11, 1822 Died on July 8, 1902 Farm boy
attended private school at age 16 Acting
President of MIT from 1868-1870 President of MIT
1870-1878 Witnessed the Russian system of
manual training at the 1876 Centennial Exposition
in Phildelphia and returned to MIT and
recommended its adoption.
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• Columbia University Teachers College faculty
  members Bonser and Mossman (1923) used the term
  "manual training" to identify the prevailing
  interpretation of industrial education in the
  1920s. In Industrial Arts for Elementary Schools
  they listed "these prominent inadequacies in
  manual training" Foster.

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• Charles
• Richards

Fredrick Bonser -
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Despite the fact that Bonser and Mossman
co-authored Industrial Arts for Elementary
Schools--probably the most famous book in the
history of industrial arts and technology
education--Bonser is often referred to as the
book's sole author. But Before he met Mossman,
Bonser had done no work in the field of
industrial arts. Yet he is remembered as the man
who founded the industrial arts movement.

• Louis Coffey Mossman and Frederick Bonser

Bonser and Coffey at Macomb, 1906-1910 Need to
design own projects (shirts, shelter, drew
houses Integration of school subjects. Industrial
arts is a study of the changes made by man in the
forms of materials to increase their values, and
of the problems of life related to these changes
(Bonser Mossman, 1923, p. 5).
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Apprenticeship
St. Louis Manual Training Woodward
Russian System
Vocational training
MIT- Runkle
Sloyd
Manual Arts
Industrial Arts
1876 Centennial Exhibition Philly
Arts and Crafts Movement 1890
Dewey Progressive Education
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Industrial arts/ Technology Education 1980
Study of Technology William Warner Delmar
Olson 1947
Technology Education
World of Manufacturing World of Construction
Ohio State Maryland Plan- Maley Devore-
Technology as discipline
Move from Progressive to conservative (sputnik)
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