Browsing by Author "Valtari, Reetta"

The aim and the purpose of this design -based study was to develop craft education from the point of view of critical pedagogy. The study was based on finding theoretic perspective from critical pedagogy to craft education and then apply it to the practice in the topic of clothing culture and making of cloths. The reason and needs behind the developing process was the beginner teacher's own interest to find ways to create that kind of craft education which aims to develop people's critical consciousness about social and ecological phenomena that includes to the craft and specially to clothing. The design-based study is based on four phases. First phase was constructing of theoretical frame from the theoretical literature of craft education and critical pedagogy. Then, based on the theoretical conversation between both themes the point of views for the developing was determined. After that, the determined point of views were applied one step nearer to the practice and some kind of educational plan for the topic of clothing was created. Little part of the plan was tested in Helsingin normaalilyseo with the pupils on seventh degree. The last phase of the study was to reflect the practice in the light of used theories based on the notes and feedback made during it. Critical pedagogy offered something to develop both for the pedagogy and the content of craft education. The most important point of views for the pedagogy were dialogic, problem-based, multi-perspective and emansipatoric educational practices where the main issues are to advance people's experimental and autonomous subjectivity, own voice and socio-political consciousness. The main points of view to develop the contents of craft education are self-reflection with sociopolitical knowledge, ecosocial consciousness, critical consciousness toward capitalism and critical multiculturalism. The educational plan for the topic of clothing was made based on those previous issues. The main problems occurred during the practice were the lack of time and unexperienced teacher.