Education and learning are an essential part of our role, and we intend that children and young people be taught contemporary craft in schools.
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'Chess Set Pieces' by Lucy Casson; Photo: Catherine Stewart, 2007
We are working with Ofsted and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) to ensure contemporary crafts has a place in the national curriculum.
We will release further information on this over the next year.
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We've also identified that craft in schools can help children become motivated, develop critical skills and encourage social interaction.
In 2005, we investigated the benefits of craft to the learner, in a report to the QCA prepared by Dr Nicholas Houghton:
"As contemporary art of the last 30 years has become less concerned with producing things and more concerned with concepts, craft has also changed and grown in significance. Contemporary craft is forward looking. A contemporary craftsperson is likely to consider ICT to be another tool to be used as appropriate. Far from being the opposite of new technology, C21st craft embraces it."
