Browsing by Author "Kaasalainen, Eveliina"

This research seeks to clarify the factors that promote learning in craft lessons, the needs for support, and the factors behind them from the perspective of craft teachers. I also get acquainted with how craft teachers experience the realization of three-level support in the context of craft. For this research, three craft teachers who teach in comprehensive schools, were inter viewed. The interviews were conducted remotely due to the prevailing covid-19 pandemic. The implementation of the research is guided by a qualitative phenomenographic approach and the themes that emerge from the theory. After transcription, the interview material was analyzed by means of phenomenographic analysis, and the results of the study have been presented in descriptive categories specific to phenomenographic analysis. The results also present a three-step support model based on the experiences of craft teachers. The aim of this research is to describe the forms of support used by craft teachers and the factors that promote the provision of support in craft lessons. The results resulted in four categories of description that were collectively constructed from teachers ’perceptions are; work community support, diversity of teaching, safe adult and a functional learning environment. Teachers identified various ways to promote support, such as collegial support, variations in differentiation, materials and tools, the use of different group work and peer support, the importance of student knowledge in identifying support needs and the role of one's own role in earning students trust. Teachers had differing views on the implementation of the three-step support model in craft classes. A collective understanding of the forms of support used by teachers is built in the results to give an indication of how teachers apply different levels of forms of support in their work