Craft shaping society : educating in the crafts--the global experience. Book one / Lindy Joubert, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joubert, Lindy, editor.

Series:

UNESCO-UNEVOC book series ; v. 35.

Technical and vocational education and training: issues, concerns and prospects ; volume 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technical education.

Technical education--Social aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color).

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2022]

Summary:

This book focuses on the role of craft as a continuing cultural practice and the revival of disappearing skills in contemporary society. It includes twenty-five essays by highly regarded artisans, academics, technologists, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, curators, and researchers from many countries representing a wide range of global craft traditions and innovations. The authors explain their professional practices and creative pathways with knowledge, experience, and passion. They offer insightful analyses of their traditions within their culture and in the marketplace, alongside the evolution of technology as it adapts to support experimentation and business strategies. They write about teaching and research informing their practice; and they explain the importance of their tools and materials in function and form of the objects they make. The essays reveal a poignant expression of their successes, disappointments, and opportunities. This book offers case studies of how artisans have harnessed the traditions of the past alongside the latest design technologies. The authors reveal how global craft is not only a vehicle for self-expression and creativity, but also for being deeply relevant to the world of work, community and environmental sustainability. The book makes the vital link between skills, knowledge, education, and employment, and fills a much-needed niche in Technical, Vocational Education and Training TVET.

Contents:

Section 1 Tradition and Aspiration

Invisible Menders The Convict Women Who Made the Rajah Quilt

Learning from Craft

Custodians of Culture in the Global Market

Section 2 Cross-Cultural Traditions

Macassan Influence on Arnhem Land Material Culture

Section 3 The Woven

In Her Hands: Bilum Weaving in Papua New Guinea

Weaving Their Way to Self-Sufficiency

Al-Sadu Textile Research Project

Section 4 The Carved

Learning to Carve Wood in the Trobriand Islands

Section 5 The Fired

Firing Sculpture and Its Public Interactions

Section 6 The Educational - Research and Development

Contextual Learning Craft and Design in Technical and Vocational Education

Educating in the Crafts: The Role of Research Organisations in Continuing Craft Traditions

Crafting Higher Education in the UK: Tensions Between Policy and Practice

The Impact of Creative Learning on Young Peoples Wellbeing

Learning Craft through Educational Research Projects reflection from Thailand

Section 7 The Digital

Towards Digital Craft

Chiang Mai Digital Craft: The Craftsman and Digital Technology.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 13, 2022).

ISBN:

9789811694721

9811694729

OCLC:

1322810524

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.