Browsing by Subject "Kädentaidot"

The study was conducted to research the significance of a handicrafting hobby to young people. More specifically, the study looked at handicraft workshop Värkkäämö that operates under Helsinki City youth services. The subject has been researched a lot from the perspective of the attendees but only a little from the perspective of the instructor. There were three research questions: What kinds of meanings does the handicrafting hobby have? What visible effects does the free-of-charge nature of the service have? How is the communality of the activity experienced? The first question acts as the base for the study. The study was qualitative in nature and its material was gathered from a focused interview with one person. The interviewee was Värkkäämö handicraft workshop’s Director of Operations, and the research approach was a case study. The material from the interview was transcribed, themed and analysed using content analysis as the method. From the interview material it was concluded that multiple different meanings can be seen in young people’s handicrafting hobby. It was also clear that these meanings are interwoven with each other and are not always separable from each other. The interviewee felt that young people’s well-being was the most important of these meanings. In addition, according to the interviewee the free-of-charge nature of the service had visible effects. Everyone was free to join the activity, which for its part increased the activity of the young people. Communality was most apparent in the use of instruments and materials, as they were all shared in the activity. In addition, communality was also apparent in the events that were organised with different organisations.