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Future-Oriented Reform of Craft Education

The Cases of Finland and Latvia

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The purpose of this chapter is to describe craft education from three perspectives: current craft education, the challenges craft education will face in the future, and descriptions of two future-oriented pedagogical models with some examples that may reform craft education.

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Pöllänen, S., Urdziņa-Deruma, M. (2017). Future-Oriented Reform of Craft Education. In: Kimonen, E., Nevalainen, R. (eds) Reforming Teaching and Teacher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-917-1_5

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