Abstract
In this paper, I analyzed mainly the practice of early sloyd education of N s sloyd school for boys. N s sloyd school for boys, which was found in 1872, lowered the entrance age into 10 to 11 years old in 1874, and changed to sloyd school that had also the side as folk school. The school taught home sloyd as sloyd education in 1872, however it introduced many general subjects by reform of 1874 and the purpose of sloyd education changed to teach general skills. From analysis of the practice of Naas sloyd school for boys (1872-1876), Salomon had reached the idea that sloyd education should be a part of general education before he met Cygnaeus in 1877. At the point of 1876 Salomon had already noticed the effect of restricting sloyd education to wood work. In other words, he had found the meaning of teaching wood work as general education in the points that it needs tools people use in their daily life, promotes their physical strength, and turns out products that are useful for their daily life. Though the purpose of sloyd education was teaching home sloyd when Naas sloyd school for boys was started in 1872, because of reform of 1874 and introduction of more general subjects it had to lower the number of time allocated for sloyd education and the purpose of it changed to "teach general skills". Then about the teaching method, it changed to how to use knife from traditional way by craftsman, it was also made by the change of purpose to "teach general skills". There was a problem about the integration of sloyd school and folk school in the process of development of popular education system as the background of the change. There was a situation that sloyd school, which should get pupils from farmer's children, could get enough pupils by integrating sloyd school and folk school. And it meant that it was needed for sloyd school to lower the number of time allocated for sloyd education. In addition, it was needed to change the purpose of sloyd education from teaching home sloyd (in other words, selling products as a rural industry) to teaching sloyd as general education. On the other hand, folk school, which was biased toward theoretical study, was also needed to change to be more acceptable for farmers by introducing sloyd as a subject and teaching both of theoretical and practical subjects.
