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Chamila Subasinghe – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: Beyond symptomatic communication barriers between designers and communities, glocal resiliency building (GRB) by intercultural groups often challenges traditional service-learning trajectories. Without ambitious performance hurdles, two higher education institutions from Australia and Thailand built rapport via their shared love for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Handicrafts, Woodworking
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Hanna Hofverberg – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2024
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the concept of design literacy by exploring what it means to learn design literacy through making. To support my argumentation, I draw on a case study where I followed two student teachers of design and craft as they learned design literacy through woodworking. Due to COVID-19, the learning environment was…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Environment, Handicrafts
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Peppler, Kylie; Sedas, R. Mishael; Dahn, Maggie – Education Sciences, 2020
The maker movement advocates hands-on making with emerging technologies because of its value for promoting innovative and personally meaningful transdisciplinary learning. Educational research has focused on settings that primarily serve youth from dominant groups, yet we know surprisingly little about making among minoritized youth and the kinds…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Experiential Learning, Family Environment, Learner Engagement
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Maapalo, Pauliina; Østern, Tone Pernille – Education Inquiry, 2018
In this article, researchers from the perspectives of post-humanism and new materialism investigate the methodological possibilities and challenges offered by multisensory interviews with Norwegian Art and Crafts teachers regarding their practice theories connected to woodwork with primary school children. Author 1 has visited eight different…
Descriptors: Art Teachers, Art Education, Foreign Countries, Handicrafts
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Thorsteinsson, Gisli; Ólafsson, Brynjar – History of Education, 2014
Pedagogically aimed craft education was established around the same time as the school-based system of formative education, under the term Sloyd. This refers to a pedagogical system of manual training that promotes general child development, through the acquisition of the technical skills employed in woodwork, metalwork, sewing, knitting and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handicrafts, Art Education, Educational History
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Schwalbe, Michael – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2010
In the spring of 2009, this author asked the director of North Carolina State's Crafts Center to help him find people who might be willing to participate in a project about skill. Bill Wallace, an occasional teacher at the Crafts Center, was one of the people recommended to him. Bill Wallace is a man who can look at a tree and instinctively know…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Woodworking, Skills, Interviews
Solar, Frank I. – Bruce Publishing Company, 1931
This textbook presents projects in making goods for domestic use. It deals with methods of squaring up stock, adjusting the plane, etc., as well as directions and illustrations that should be studied by the amateur before attempting to make these woodworking projects. This series does not include directions for the use of common woodworking tools,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Handicrafts, Woodworking, Design
Stevens, Rob – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 1996
Instructions on making a canoe paddle include types of wood to consider, choices of tools, how to determine paddle length, various designs, blade dimensions, smoothing, waterproofing, and storage. Explains how every aspect of the design is influenced by upper body strength, paddling experience, and personal preference. (TD)
Descriptors: Canoeing, Hand Tools, Handicrafts, Hobbies
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Katz, Noomi; Cohen, Esther – Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 1991
A study to compare the meanings ascribed by 35 occupational therapy students to puppetry, woodworking, weaving, and ceramics revealed significant differences before and after learning, especially for puppetry. Significant differences were found across activities, mainly between weaving and the other crafts. (JOW)
Descriptors: Ceramics, Handicrafts, Higher Education, Occupational Therapy
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McKeegan, Paul – School Arts, 1981
Outlines a wood carving project for secondary art students. Includes tips on materials and tool use. (SJL)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Hand Tools, Handicrafts, Sculpture
Balke, Betty T. – Amer Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Art Education, Career Development, Ceramics, Creativity
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Le Xuan Thuy – 1965
This is the second of two textbooks covering the elementary program in Vietnam on handicrafts and industrial arts. It is written for Vietnamese children at the fourth and fifth grade level. The four chapters are: (1) clay moulding, (2) use of ordinary carpentry tools, (3) book binding, and (4) miscellaneous. The course is designed to offer…
Descriptors: Ceramics, Elementary Education, Handicrafts, Industrial Arts
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Dow, Wendy – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2005
This paper examines the rationale for the Woodworking Skills section of a course on Practical Craft Skills which forms part of the new technology curriculum in Scottish Schools. Introduced with the intention of making technology subjects more accessible to a wider range of pupils, the subject has potential for contributing to a more inclusive…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Handicrafts, Design, Woodworking
Whiteside, Karen, Ed. – Loblolly Magazine, 1986
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Rural Electrification Act changed farm life dramatically. The miracle of electricity in rural East Texas is examined in "Electricity Comes to East Texas" (Brandi Anderson and others). Chronicled is a description of life without electricity and how everyday chores were done in its absence. Local citizens…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Folk Culture, Handicrafts, Lighting
Covarrubias, Miguel – 1954
The origins of Native Americans are traced through art forms in this history of American art. The basic time periods for this history are determined and defined as the formative horizon, the classic horizon, and the historical horizon. Art forms used throughout these time periods are described in terms of technique and aesthetics. The arts and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Architecture, Art, Eskimos
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