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Matti Pirttimaa

Crafts, technology and design: That's what we are doing - 12 views

started by Matti Pirttimaa on 24 Apr 13
  • Tuğba BAHÇEKAPILI
    #2 Tuğba BAHÇEKAPILI on 02 May 13
     
    Thank you for sharing you experince. I visited your blog Crafts, technology and design. I wonder in which department did preservice teachers take this course? You mentioned that this course was given in Department of Teacher Education but do teachers in all disciplines take this course or is there are special discipline called Crafts and technology teacher program under the Department of Teacher Education?
  • Matti Pirttimaa
    #3 Matti Pirttimaa on 02 May 13
     
    Yes, Sloyd Teacher Education or in the other words Craft and Technology Teacher Education is one programme in the University of Turku, Department of Teacher Education, Rauma Unit (sorry for this long name:). You will find a little more information in http://www.edu.utu.fi/laitokset/rokl/en/ The electronics course mentioned in my blog is one of the first year courses (4 credit points) in our programme. Crafts, technology and product design basic courses consists of 35 credit points in the first year studies... during these courses the students learn different contents of craft and technology, including woodwork, metalwork, electronics, product desing and different textile contents or technologies/techniques. Also educational sciences are being studied... I'm sorry that we don't have the curriculum in English, but the Finnish (only the main headings in the left of the site are in English) version can be seen in https://nettiopsu.utu.fi/opas/tutkintoOhjelma.htm?rid=8919&uiLang=en&lang=fi&lvv=2012 Also the classroom teacher students can take these basic studies or even the larger subject studies as their second subject studies.
  • Tuğba BAHÇEKAPILI
    #4 Tuğba BAHÇEKAPILI on 06 May 13
     
    Thank you for your explanation, I have one more question, when these students graduate from Crafts, technology and design department how they have employed in schools? What is the context of their jobs? Do they teach a technology cirriculum?
  • Matti Pirttimaa
    #5 Matti Pirttimaa on 06 May 13
     
    The students graduated from us will be employed in the Finnish comprehensive schools as the craft teachers. If they have made the minor subject studies that lead to a qualification as a class teacher, they will be employed also as classteachers (grades 1 - 6) in the Finnish comprehensive shools. In Finland, crafts is a compulsory subject for all students in the grades 1 - 7. In the grades 1 - 4 the instruction is implemented with the same contents for all pupils, and encompasses technical and textile work. The Finnish curricula and core contents are available in English in http://www.oph.fi/download/47673_core_curricula_basic_education_4.pdf ... you can find them in the chapter 7.17, on the pages 240 - 244 (pdf document pages 38 - 42). I found two blogpages which give some examples about crafts in one Finnish school: http://saaksintekninen.blogspot.fi/ and http://saaksinkassy.blogspot.fi/

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