Beschreibung:
The purpose of this article is to examine the major changes Finnish school craft has undergone and explain these changes by using societal, pedagogical and subject-driven determinants. The main sources of this research include committee reports and national curricula. Research data was classified into five periods: craft for home well-being (1866-1911), craft for civic society (1912-1945), craft for independent hard-working citizens (1946-1969), toward equality craft (1970-1993), and unlimited craft (1994-2014). The analysis show that school craft has steadily followed students’, society’s and the subject’s different needs during these periods.