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This thesis researched thoughts and opinions of handicraft as a school subject in Finnish upper secondary school among pupils. The accent of the thesis was also the relation between handicraft in school and pupils’ other school subjects, everyday life and career choices. The main focus was to find out how positive issue it was to have a possibility to study handicraft in upper secondary school and should the pupils have the same possibility in every Finnish school. Based on earlier researches studying handicraft in upper secondary school is very popular and pupils also make handicraft in their free time. Anyhow, it is not considered to be a career choice. The thesis was a phenomenographical research, it was accomplished as a semi-structured Internet survey questionnaire and directed to pupils who studied handicraft in Finnish upper secondary school. Pupils were asked to answer the questionnaire via school staff who forwarded it to pupils. Most of the questions were open questions, and yes or no- and Likert-scale questions that measured background information and personal opinions. The questionnaire had 39 accepted answers that were gathered during May 2015. The material was analysed with the qualitative content analysis method. It was first transcribed to quantitative and written material and then the same type of answers were sorted out to their own categories. It took almost two years from gathering the material to have it analysed. The result of this thesis was that pupils liked to study handicraft in school but they didn’t think it would be an important subject for their personal career choices or that it should be a compulsory subject in Finnish upper secondary school. For the last one, it seems that the interested target group is too narrow. Most of the pupils did craft in their free time, which had an obvious link to study it in school also. The main reasons to study voluntary handicraft in school are to reinforce the craft hobby but also to have an easy and non-stressful credit. So the pupils who study handicraft in school are not necessarily craft oriented. The subjects of further study could be the later events of lives of those people who studied handicraft in upper secondary school and do research into the question if they chose their careers with craft because of school studies and hobbies.