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No full textJeg har hatt gleden av å samarbeide med deg gjennom ca. 10 år, helt siden jeg ble ansatt på Nasjonalt senter for kunst og kultur i opplæringen ved Nord universitet i Bodø i 2012. Jeg skjønte raskt at du var en sentral fagperson i UH-sektoren i forhold til fagområdet kunst og håndverk. Selv kommer jeg fra et helt annet fagfelt, nemlig biblioteksektor og sosialantropologi, og jeg har senere beveget meg inn i tilpasset opplæring og det spesialpedagogiske feltet. Ved senteret fikk jeg blant annet oppgaver knyttet til forskningsformidling. Nysgjerrigheten for å hele tiden utvide vår kompetanse og lære nye ting er vel noe vi har felles
Utvidet virkelighet i bøker for barn: «Augmented Reality» og analoge bøker
No full textIn this article, we look at the use of augmented reality (AR) used as a supplement to analogue books. These books are produced by kindergarten teacher students with a target group of children aged 2-5. Through aesthetic learning processes, students and children create books at the intersection between digital technologies and physical materials. Analysis and discussion deal with examples of the students\u27 analogue books where they use AR, the creative processes, and the students\u27 experiences with analogue and digital techniques.I denne artikkelen ser vi på bruk av utvidet virkelighet («Augmented Reality»/AR) i samspill med analoge bøker. Disse bøkene er produsert av barnehagelærerstudenter med målgruppe barn 2-5 år. Gjennom estetiske læringsprosesser skaper studenter og barn bøker i skjæringspunktet mellom digitale teknologier og fysiske materialer. Analyse og diskusjon tar for seg eksempler på studentenes analoge bøker der de benytter seg av AR, de skapende prosessene og studentenes erfaringer med analoge og digitale teknikker
Formingsforskning i en ny tid? : En undersøkelse om formingsforskning, kunnskapsutvikling og endring i faget Kunst og håndverk
No full textThis essay examines how the research traditions in arts and crafts are developed and changed over the last 50 years, from the 1970s and up to 2021, taking departure from four defended doctoral disputations during a week in June 2021, at Norwegian universities and university colleges. Emphasis is on the educational institution framework conditions for research in the field in the context of teacher eduction and the school subject of arts and crafts in primary and lower secondary school. The essay build on available information primarily collected from the summaries of the four dissertations from June 2021, overviews of arts and craft research (Melby, 2002) and doctorates in the field, in Norway and the Nordic countries (Johansson, 2018). Further, the essay elaborates on how research in the field is discussed, formulated and changed, from Lindström’s (2011) arguments on different centres of gravity in research in the field, and the subject’s great range in themes and research areas.
I dette essayet undersøkes hvordan forskningstradisjonene i kunst og håndverk utformes og endres. Inngangen er tematikker og forskningsområder som illustreres med fire disputaser i løpet av en uke i juni 2021. Videre, rettes søkelyset mot den historiske utviklingen fra 1970-tallet og frem til 2021 da disse avhandlingen ble forsvart i disputaser ved norske universiteter og høyskole. Det er lagt vekt på de utdanningsinstitusjonelle rammebetingelser for forskningen i fagfeltet, og å se forskningen i fagfeltet i sammenheng med lærerutdanning og skolefaget forming/kunst og håndverk i grunnskolen. Essayet bygger tilgjengelig informasjon som primært er innhentet fra sammendragene for de fire avhandlingene fra juni 2021, oversikter over formingsforskning (Melby, 2002) og doktorgrader innenfor fagfeltet, i Norge og Norden (Johansson, 2018). Her diskuteres hvordan forskningen i fagfeltet fra disse kilder omtales, utformes og endres, sett i lys av Lindström (2011) argumenter om ulike tyngdepunkter i forskningen i fagfeltet, og fagets store spennvidde i tematikker og forskningsområder.  
Advanced student motivation in craft teacher education: Learning new yarn crafts at university study courses
No full textThis study investigates student craft teachers’ motivational issues within the course frameworks covering yarn crafts. The data consist of materials gathered from two bachelor-level university courses, which both utilized flipped learning as their pedagogy framework for learning and teaching crafts. Advanced-level student craft teachers participating in the courses (N=15+4) set their own learning objectives to reflect the general course targets defined by the course curriculum. The objectives, self-assessments, course work and course-end surveys were acquired as research data and analysed by thematical qualitative analysis, to obtain knowledge of extrinsic and intrinsic motivations. In line with Self-Determination Theory used as a theoretical framework of the study, the results suggest that possibilities to finetune course objectives to meet students\u27 personal skills and resources were considered crucial for study motivation. Craft learning embraced realization of one’s effort, inner potential and values, resulting in student satisfaction about receiving personalized attention and instructions for their own study projects. Hence, the results enhance a more detailed understanding of student diversity and related motivational issues that can promote the equity of education
The story behind an exhibited rag rug : report from a workshop cleaning
No full textIn my paper, I describe my insights as manager of the textile workshop at the Department of Design at Linnaeus University, as well as how we teach material-based work. Part of my work as a workshop manager is to conduct a major clean-up at the end of every year. Last year, when I was standing in front of a pile of waste textiles, I began to reflect on how this pile of textile had been transformed from well-working material into waste. In a previous project with the research group Praktikforum, together with my colleagues, I explored what kinds of waste we produced when we made material-based artistic work. Thus, it was no surprise that practice-based work produced waste. The surprise was what I could understand from it. Looking closer into the waste, I obtained a deeper understanding of what had happened in the workshop during the year; how the students had used the material, what they had learned and what sometimes went wrong became obvious. I gained a deeper understanding of how we use, understand and teach/learn about materials and how we can develop the workshop by learning from the waste. At the same time, I learned the technique of ‘inbraiding’. For me, this was a new craft technique, in which waste textiles can be used when making rugs. I saw the opportunity to use the waste and upcycle it. By exhibiting the rug, I want to discuss the possibility of working more sustainably with crafts
Innovation in Estonian heritage-based knitting: The case of embroidered gloves
No full textInnovation is an intentionally introduced significant and positive change to an existent practice. In crafts, innovation is challenging because, by nature, crafts are based on traditions and collective knowledge; they involve practising something the way it has always been practiced. If anything changes, it is copied rapidly by other craftspeople. In this article, I explain innovation in traditional glove-knitting through the concept of transformation of the tradition, and I analyse the case using a method called technique-concept-utility-structure-material (TCUSM), which was introduced by Adhi Nugraha in 2010. According to this method, one must know the tradition thoroughly in order to make conscious and justifiable changes to it. One must compare and explain what is traditional and what is new in one’s products. I combine this method with an artistic autoethnographic approach. Within my personal practice, the most significant change to the original involves combining and borrowing aesthetic elements from other traditional textiles or developing my own combinations of patterns and colours. First, I give a short overview of the history of embroidered gloves in Estonia, then demonstrate, with the help of explanations and photographs, contemporary gloves, made by me
Crafts and the Origins of Geometry
No full textIn this paper, we explore the possible roles of craftwork at the origins of geometry. Since shapes are the characters of geometry, our focus is on crafting shapes. We review two approaches to the nature of making: hylomorphism and hylonoesis. Related to these, we distinguish between ‘shape’ and ‘shaping’. From studies on prehistoric pottery, we explore a conception of ‘shaping’ as thoroughly implicated by the manifold social, biological, and material life of a community. Then we explore the significance of ’shaping’, which animate shapes, immerse them in the vagaries of materiality, and fill them with secrets longing for their open realization; a realization that is at once — inseparably — material and imaginary. We make shapes as they shape our bodies, and then we become capable of imagining and gesturing them
Horsehair weaving for sievewrights : Documentation of an ongoing craft project
No full textThis paper aims to discuss methods for reviving a craft – horsehair weaving – inspired by the concept of a moving searchlight approach and a forensic perspective. Isolated artefacts, tools, tools with ongoing processes and photographs, together with preserved documentation, have been analysed. Ongoing documentation on social media and a webpage were used during this process. Social media aimed to get people interested in the subject, test thoughts and maintain a dialogue. The webpage aimed to gather documentation demonstrating the horsehair weaving process and how the sievewright was made. The public documentation also aimed to inspire and engage other crafters. The public display of the ongoing project has been a positive learning experience. Different methods of documentation have different advantages
Educational Ideas on the Move: Student Teachers’ International Teaching Internship
No full textBased on ethnographic fieldwork amongst Danish student teachers, this paper examines international teaching internships from a mobilities and spatial perspective. While the international teaching internship is regarded as a tool to develop student teachers’ intercultural competencies, this paper shows how culturally shaped educational ideas travel with and are practiced by student teachers in new educational and cultural contexts. Therefore, this paper suggests that such internships may perpetuate and reinforce normative ideas about pedagogy and ‘correct’ ways of teaching, being a pupil, and a teacher. The paper finds that student teachers see some educational ideas and practices as universal and applicable everywhere and others as particular and spatially bound. This, the paper argues, reflects a hierarchisation of ideas based on an assumption of the superiority of ‘Western’ education, which results in processes of pedagogical othering. The paper further argues that international teaching internships represent an important avenue to critically discuss educational values and examine how values impact pedagogical practice, furthering students’ professional development
Addressing water-health equity through biological engineering and theatre
No full textFor the past decade, RESEAU has been engaging with Indigenous and rural communities across Canada in pursuit of water-health equity. RESEAU consists of a team of engineers, community partners, industry groups, and government officials working together to develop innovative solutions for water-health in small communities. Over the last six years, RESEAU has partnered with the UBC Research-based Theatre Lab to develop Treading Water, a research-based theatre play that brings to life some of the rich stories discovered during these community collaborations. The play flows between the intersecting narratives of individuals in a community dealing with unsafe drinking water and explores the resulting challenges to their health and well-being. Water operators and their experiences are central in Treading Water, and the research-based play illustrates their pivotal role in the community. This article, like the theatre initiative described, aims to open conversations addressing water quality and health issues facing rural communities in the 21st century. The article shares the collaborative process of developing the play with the various partners, the short script, as well as feedback from a performer and an evaluator.
Cover image: Boil water advisory lifted. Photo credit: RESEA