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Q # 1 Write a Note on the Significance of Handwork.
Ans:- It notes that handwork allows children to use their hands as a tool for self- expression and
creativity. It also helps children develop practical and motor skills. Some key benefits
highlighted include developing coordination, confidence, and the ability to learn through hands-
on experiences. Handwork and crafts are to have a specific task within the context of the
curriculum, namely to awaken creative powers which would find fruitful and useful application
in as many Ways as possible in later life and work. The practicing of handwork is not meant to
provide just a pleasant past-time but to specifically help the young child to develop a healthy
imagination and harmonies his unfolding will and feeling life. For the older child, the teenager,
the enhancement of these soul faculties will form the basis for an active thinking life and
possibility to form sound judgment. Again and again Rudolf Steiner points out those adult
qualities—for instance, sound judgment, to have balanced thinking—depend far more on
whether a child was taught to use his hands, his fingers in a right and practical way. This leads to
the exercising of logical thinking in later life. The reason for this is based on one of the
fundamental precepts of true teaching, namely that when we engage the child in physical,
practical activity, such as handwork or Craft work, we are working on the 'soul spirit nature ‘of
that child. However, when we address the 'soul spirit nature', for instance, in story-telling, the
healthy results are to be found in the 'bodily organism'. It is consequently no less important for
the handwork/craft teacher to be familiar with the nature of soul life and the development of the
child than for the class teacher. Both should work in accordance with how the child is at any
time,
how he or she perceives him or herself and the world. The three phases of development from
play in which the child experiences the world is Good (up to the age of 7), through the
experience of beauty (the school child from 7 to 14) to the attainment of truth (the adolescent
years) help the child transform what was play into the basis for his/her motivation in the realm of
work. This Golden Path in education forms the guideline in handwork as well. The younger child
learns by play to fashion simple toys, developing what he or she makes out of stories. The
handwork teacher then gradually leads the child to the awareness of color and form in order to
create artistic forms and to have a sense for what is beautiful. Later with the older child and the
teenager, the sense for what is practical is awakened and developed out of the artistic way of
working: by learning to respond to the materials, by the development of manual skills and the
correct use of tools. That all articles made in handwork should express beauty in some form goes
without saying. It is however, equally important that the functional aspect, the way to use the
article, is also apparent in the particular design given to the article. This is a new and objective
discipline inherent in all practical 2 activities and is essential to all true Craft Practice. What
follows is an attempt to outline the essential elements and practice of the Formal Hand Work
Curriculum. It is one with which we may be familiar. However, I believe due to changing
circumstances of today, we could benefit from a rethink and adaptation into our present time.
Renewing The Craft Curriculum in view of the
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increasing occurrence of many basic learning and behavioral problems presented by children
throughout the school, are we not challenged to provide an education more consciously focused
on the 'experiential’? An education that is artistic, practical and intellectually stimulating?
Perhaps too much of our education is directed at the Thinking Man and rarely descends to
creatively satisfy the Will Man. The renewed Craft Curriculum is an attempt to lead the
child/pupil on a path of education that ascends from below
Q2: Creative make any ten handwork items discussed in the module.
Answer:
1. PAPER CUTTING CHAIN LINKS
2. MOSAIC PAPER COLLAGE/ MOSAIC
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3. MAKING MASK PAPER MASK
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4. PUPPET:
5. SEED COLLAGE
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6. THE WOVEN BASKET:
7. CUTTING PAPER HEARTS:
8. TWILL PATTERN:
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9. PAPER CUP:
10. PAPER FISH:
11. PAPER SAIL BOAT:
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