Course content

Arts and crafts 1 consists of two semesters, subject 1 and subject 2, and qualify for teaching in arts and crafts from grades 5 to 10 in primary school.

The subject contributes to insight into the subject's core elements art and design processes, cultural understanding, craft skills and visual communication, where the elements are linked to subject didactic reflection.

The subject has an aesthetic (sensory) approach to learning where both the practical and the cognitive are intertwined in exploratory creative learning processes without clear answers. These aim to stimulate curiosity, a desire to explore, courage, creative joy and problem solving in a learning environment based on security and dialogue. It promotes independence, identity development, analytical skills and critical reflection. The interdisciplinary topic of public health and coping with life is therefore a natural part of the course.

The arts and crafts subject is interdisciplinary through, among other things, work with natural materials, floor plans and calculations, written reports and logs. Knowledge of cultural and social development is represented through art historical themes, cultural heritage and sustainability perspectives.

Subject 2 consists of four areas:

Design: the subject challenges work with issues related to design, everyday aesthetics and sustainable development. Basic training is provided in materials and techniques within various design areas such as wood, ceramics, textiles and visual communication. Facilitation is provided for the student's own creative process of objects that primarily cover practical needs.

Architecture: the subject focuses on the experience of indoor and outdoor spaces that affect our everyday life as well as knowledge of local building customs and national styles. Investigative and creative work is linked to the local environment. Through drawing and building different types of models, awareness of three-dimensional spaces is increased.

Art and cultural understanding: the course focuses on cultural understanding with an emphasis on Norwegian and international handicrafts, design and architecture from historicism to the present day. The area provides a basis for planning teaching, experience and the development of knowledge about and awareness of the form expressions of different periods and cultures. Through the exploration of various cultural expressions, one can increase awareness of democracy and citizenship and see oneself and others in a historical and cultural context.

Subject didactics: Subject didactics is an integral part of the work in the subject and shows how to organize learning in arts and crafts. The subject's relevance and legitimacy as a general education subject in school is an important part of this.

The subject presents a great variety in teaching, guidance and assessment forms that can equip the students to promote the students' creative and practical development in the subject which can contribute to mastery and joy. Own experiences from the creative process and theoretical and practical competence are important factors

Learning outcome

Knowledge

The student

• has knowledge of materials, techniques, practical- and aesthetic tools that are fundamental in work with design and architecture
• has knowledge of the main directions and development of modern handicrafts, design and architecture
• have knowledge of how forms of expression from different cultures, nationally and internationally, are a resource for own creative work and learning related to design and architecture
• has knowledge of basic skills in the subject with an emphasis on design and architecture

Skills

The student

• have basic craft skills in design areas such as textiles, wood, ceramics and visual communication
• can develop an idea into a finished form, document and assess one's own creative process and be a good role model for students within the various design areas• can work with models using digital tools
• can experiment with and use relevant materials, tools, means and techniques in work with design and architecture
• can use analysis tools in design and architecture
• can convey art and cultural understanding in varied ways, and see connections between different cultural expressions, children's and young people's creative activities and own work
• can select appropriate materials, techniques and hand tools that are suitable for tasks in grade 5-10, maintain tools and simple machines and know safety routines (
• can use the local environment as a source of experience and acquisition of knowledge as a starting point for own work and as a resource for student assignments in design and architecture
• can plan and carry out teaching, and facilitate adapted training for all students in the areas of design and architecture • can carry out learning-oriented assessment

General competence

The student

• can start from a diversity perspective to create an inclusive working environment
• can use variations in visual expressions in design and architecture as a starting point for tasks and professional conversation
• can facilitate creative and creative processes that activate the senses, engage emotions and link the practical and the cognitive together in creative learning processes.
• can use digital learning arenas for obtaining and disseminating subject matter related to design and architecture
• can utilize the subject's opportunities for critical reflection on sustainability, consumer patterns and reuse.
• can invite other subjects to practical, theoretical and didactic collaboration and generate interdisciplinary and scientifically exploratory forms of work and understanding

Learning methods and activities

The study is harmonized with the working methods in the current curriculum for primary school. Teaching is carried out practically and theoretically in varied learning environments. The students work individually and in groups. A significant amount of work is required through self-study where the students work on tasks in extension of self-selected problems. The study will consist of an alternation between one's own practical creative work, encounters with art and formal culture, theoretical studies and collaboration with the field of practice. Reflection on one's own work and that of others is central. The students will work on academic and current issues. Documentation of work processes must be done through analogue or digital logs. Excursions to exhibitions and collections in the local environment are an important part of the course.

Compulsory assignments

• Obligatory course work according to course description

Specific conditions

Course materials

Final syllabus will be posted on Blackboard before the start of the study.

Credit reductions