Textile literacy as prerequisite for design in textile related practicies: From Sloyd in swedish compulsory education to individual collection in upper secondary education

• This paper is related to a research project, Communication in Sloyd-practices, funded by the Swedish Research Council. During the project, video- and audio data was produced in classrooms of compulsory school, grades 4-9, and upper secondary school. In Swedish compulsory school, sloyd is one of the school subjects for students from grades 4-9 related to the national curriculum. In upper secondary school, sloyd related subjects related to the materials (textile or wood) are included in some programmes. Further, digital photos were taken of classroom environment and documents given to the students to work with. Here, the paper is framed within a sociocultural perspective on learning, where various tools, material and communication are seen as crucial for appropriating the specific of a social practice. We focus on a specific aspect of textile sloyd – the textile literacy as (re)presented and used in the sloyd classroom of the compulsory school and in comparison to the same aspects in upper secondary. The issue of our paper is to firstly describe the textile-related literacy that is mediated in the classrooms/workshops, both as part of the environment and as part of the subject specific practice. Secondly, we will outline the progress in literacy practice, we have identified, from early textile literacy in sloyd to the final task in two 3-year upper secondary textile related programmes: a three-part collection designed by each student. In the analysis of the material we firstly focus on the literacy environment of each classroom, looking for similarities and differences. Secondly, we look for evidence of how literacy material is introduced and used in communication between teacher and students, but also for changes in students’ communication related to literacy aspects of their work. Thirdly, we compare the material between grades in compulsory school and between compulsory school and upper secondary education.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

literacy

sloyd

sociocultural

videoanalysis

classroom

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)