The educational value of making

Abstract

This research for the Centre for International Research on Creativity and Learning in Education (CIRCLE) provides a rationale for teaching craft in secondary schools. Within the National Curriculum for design, technology and art, ‘making’ is identified as an important element of required attainment targets. This chapter explores the place of ‘making’ in the school curriculum, and draws on research into craft education in secondary schools carried out by the Crafts Council between 1994 and 1998. Through research into historical justifications for craft education in schools, it was found that craft knowledge has traditionally been undervalued because it differs from numerate and literate forms of knowledge and is tacit. Its conclusions are based on extensive, empirical research undertaken for the Crafts Council, in which 239 students in 20 schools were interviewed together with their Art and Design and Technology teachers. The sample was representative of the population of secondary schoolchildren in England and Wales. The chapter includes examples of data from this research.

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