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  • Kiinnostuksen ja taipumusten mukaan? : poikien kokemuksia käsityön painotusvalinnasta alakoulussa 
    Priha, Emma (2019)
    Crafts was for a long time one of the only school subjects that separated boys and girls to their own groups to study differing contents. Since the foundation of Finnish comprehensive school, technical or textile crafts have not been gender-related on the curriculum level. However various social, cultural, and historical factors have maintained the gender structures in school crafts that guide girls to study mainly textile crafts and boys technical crafts. The division has been especially distinctive among boys, who have almost exclusively studied technical crafts whenever the possibility to choose has been given. It has been considered desirable that students are offered a possibility to choose the crafts that they have interest in and tendencies towards, as it has been stated in the national core curriculum 2004. Studies have however shown that also many other factors have affected the choices and guided the students towards historical gender-specific crafts choices. In this study, fifth-grade boys were interviewed in order to examine the background of their choices between textile and technical crafts. It was also studied how meaningful the interviewees generally consider the possibility to choose and how they think about shared crafts, the way crafts education is arranged since the most recent national core curriculum. The interviews took place in November 2014. The interviewees were eight fifth-grade boys who had made the choice between textile and technical crafts in previous spring at the end of fourth grade. Only boys were researched since the historical gender structures have more distinctively been seen in boys’ choices. The interviews were executed as semi-structured surveys. The data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. According to this research, there has been a discrepancy between the curriculums and daily life in school when it comes to choosing between textile and technical crafts. The choices were not made only out of boys’ own interests but several social and cultural factors affected the choices, and also guided them towards choosing the historically and socially more accepted technical crafts. The interviewees had differing views when asked about the meaningfulness of the possibility to choose. However most of them stated that they would have preferred to continue studying shared crafts, if given the opportunity. According to this study, the possibility to choose between textile and technical crafts was mostly not considered meaningful, at least not at this point of the interviewees school career.
  • Yhteinen, monimateriaalinen käsityö-oppiaine : käsityön- ja luokanopettajien mietteitä käsityö-oppiaineen opetussuunnitelmamuutoksista 
    Johansson, Ani (2019)
    In elementary schools, a new curriculum (POP2014) was introduced in autumn 2016. The new curriculum no longer specifies the content of technical and textile handicraft, but the students study a shared, multi-material craft subject. Among both elementary school teachers and handicraft teachers, this change has raised a lot of uncertainty and has affected craft education. The purpose of this study is to find out how schools organize a shared craft and how teachers interpret the curriculum in this context, how teachers understand the multi-material and how it is appears in the work of the pupils. The research was carried out using qualitative methods. Three textile craft teachers, three technical teachers and two elementary school teachers were interviewed for the material. Interviews were conducted as a semi-structured theme interview. Based on research questions and previous theory, the material was analyzed theoretically by classifying it into different themes. The results of the research were finally divided into five different theme sections. Craft teaching was organized so that students were about 10 weeks at a time in the class of technical work or in the class of textile craft. The pupils first did experiments and then they designed and produced the project work. Multi-material was understood so that the student is free to use different materials and techniques in his own craft project. The teachers were worried about the survival of craft in basic education and the contraction of the craft areas to be learned. There was also concern about the reduction in teaching hours, the low popularity of handicraft and the future employment of craft teachers. Interaction between handicraft teachers and the resulting successful cooperation is the starting point for the implementation of a shared craft, and a prerequisite for the craft subject to continue to be taught in basic education in the future as well. In the future, handicraft teachers also wish to cooperate with elementary school teachers in order to create a continuum of handicraft learning from sub-classes to upper classes.

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