•  It is clear that historians of industrial arts and technology education have neglected to consider that a woman--Lois Coffey Mossman--had more to do with the establishment of industrial arts than did any other person.

•  Bonser and Mossman had a sound plan for industrial arts. Many plans since--such as the Industrial Arts Curriculum Project and the Jackson's Mill Industrial Arts Curriculum Theory--have also been the results of collaborative efforts among educators.

        But whereas, historically, the profession has recognized these group efforts as such, it has yet to acknowledge Lois Coffey Mossman as a primary contributor not only to industrial arts, but to modern "technology education."
 

Yes, a woman first had the idea of "shop" classes in Jr. High.  Lois Mossman can also be credited with the idea of home economics classes.   There was a huge controversy over boys taking home ec and girls in shop class in the 1980s.   People thought that the idea was "new."  Well, the idea 100 years ago was that both sexes be in one class--home ec and shop were together as the FIRST technology course for elementary schools.  Technology education, now changing from a male-only area of study, began because a female thought of it!  Lois Mossman was a 2nd grade teacher who went to Columbia University here in Missouri.