Anna Sandström

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Anna Sandström

Anna Maria Carolina Sandström (born September 3, 1854 in Stockholm ; died May 26, 1931 there ) was a Swedish teacher , reform pedagogue and women's rights activist .

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Anna Sandström was the daughter of land surveyor Carl Erik Sandström and Anna, née Hallström. At the age of four she came to Hjalmar Hagberg and his sister Maria Hagberg as a foster daughter. She was taught mainly at home, completed two years at the state school for girls (Statens normalskola för flickor) in 1865/1866 and 1870/1871 and then attended the Högre lärarinneseminiariet for a three-year training course as a teacher. Since the universities were not yet accessible to women, this teaching institution, founded in 1861, was the only option for higher education for women. After graduating in 1874, she went to the Åhlinska Girls' School that same year, where she taught until 1881. This was followed by two years at the Södermalms Högre Läroanstalt för flickor .

Dissatisfied with the prevailing school system with its teaching ideals and language cultures, she continued her education in self-study and became increasingly interested in reform pedagogy. In 1880 she published her first critical article under the pseudonym Uffe , Gifva våra flickskolor berättigade anledningar till missnöje? (Do the girls' schools give us cause for dissatisfaction?) In the feminist magazine Tidskrift för hemmet . In 1882 her publication Realism i undervisning eller Språkkunskap och bildning (Realism in Education or Language Skills and Education) received a lot of attention. Assuming that a recognized academic is hiding behind her pseudonym, numerous reform pedagogues and liberal forces joined forces within a few months to uffe-kretsen (uffe circle) to discuss their ideas. Sandström turned against the dominant position of French in education, the theorization of teaching and the lack of adaptation to the level of students. In 1883 she founded (as Uffe ) the educational magazine Verdandi , which she published until 1927. The magazine invited people to exchange ideas and debates critical of the system were conducted. In the same year she founded the Anna Sandström School together with Frederik Runquist and ran it until 1926. It was initially designed as a community school, but from 1895 onwards it was run as a girls' school. In 1900 the Anna Sandströms Högre lärarinneseminarium was established . Sandström's reform pedagogy was taught in both schools. Many of their ideas eventually influenced the other types of schools. In 1904 she was awarded the Illis Quorum for her work .

Sandström was a member of the Fredrika-Bremer-Förbundet , Sweden's oldest women's rights organization. Through her publications in the 1890s she became a well-known participant in the gender debate. She opposed the feminism represented by Ellen Key , which demanded equal rights for men and women. Sandström saw the different sexes as an enrichment for society and called for individual equality of the individual, regardless of gender. Later she focused more on the issues that particularly concerned the education of women.

Anna Sandström died in 1931 and was buried on Norra begravningsplatsen .

Publications

  • Gifva våra flickskolor berättigade anledningar till missnöje? In: Tidskrift för hemmet , 1880.
  • Realism i undervisning or språkkunskap och bildning. Stockholm, 1882.
  • Kvinnoarbete och kvinnolycka? Med anledning af "Missbrukad kvinnokraft" af Ellen Key. In: Dagny , 1886.
  • North of första storhetstid (omkr. 800-1066) skildrad för ung och gammal. Stockholm, 1894.
  • Tidens oro och skollivet: Medborgerlig likställighet mellan man och kvinna. Två uppsatser ur tidskriften Verdandi. Stockholm, 1921.

Web links

literature

  • Lena Eskilsson: Våra förmödrar: två Annor som förnyade pedagogiken. In: Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift. 1994. pp. 75-77.
  • Sven Grauers: Anna Sandström 1854–1931: en svensk reformpedagog. Stockholm, 1961.
  • Honorine Hermelin: Anna Sandström. In: Tidevarvet. 1931. pp. 1, 5.
  • Lena Nordesjö: Att skapa sammanhang: en presentation av Anna Sandström pedagogiska reformverksamhet. Gävle, 1995.
  • Annika Ullman: Stiftarinnegenerationen: Sofi Almquist, Anna Sandström, Anna Ahlström. Stockholm, 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sandström, Anna Maria Karolina. In: svenskagravar.se. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sandström, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sandström, Anna Maria Carolina (full name); Uffe (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish teacher, reform pedagogue and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1931
Place of death Stockholm