Craft Program Research Articles

PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT MELALUI PELATIHAN KERAJINAN “BU FIA” (BONSAI JAMBU RAFIA) PADA PKK DESA JATIREJO

Community empowerment is one way to build human capacity and increase community participation in sustainable development. Bonsai Jambu Rafia (Bu Fia) Craft Program is an empowerment activity carried out as an effort to optimize the potential of human resources in the Pemberdayaan Kesejahteraan Keluarga (PKK) institution of Jatirejo village. The method used is training and practice with a participatory approach (Participatory Rural Appraisal). This activity provides training and knowledge about guava stem and branch waste to be processed into handicrafts with high selling value. The goal is to bring the results of innovation based on local resources of guava stem and twig waste to the community, provide solutions to the needs of village partners in improving the economy, and prepare third parties for sustainable sales. The result was increased knowledge, skills, and independence for PKK members.

The CRAFT Program: Mindfulness and Yoga for Enhancing the Well-Being and Academic Experience of Higher Education Student Musicians

The Consciousness, Relaxation, Attention, Fulfillment, and Transcendence (CRAFT) program, based on yoga, mindfulness, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence, was conceived as a neuroeducational method for self-actualization, happiness, and well-being. Previous quantitative research suggests the CRAFT program is a feasible intervention to improve student musicians’ health and well-being. The current study was devised to capture a wider understanding of student musicians’ experiences and perceived benefits from following the CRAFT program and how this exposure may affect their well-being and academic life. Participants were higher education student musicians ( n = 37) who had received CRAFT instruction at a conservatory of music as part of their curriculum, once a week for 1 hr, during the academic years 2017 to 2019. They completed an evaluation survey, comprising 36 5-point Likert-type items and one open-ended question. Descriptive statistics from participants’ Likert-type item evaluations supported the potential of the program to bestow numerous hypothesized benefits related to its five elements and viability. A content analysis conducted on participants’ responses to the open-ended question confirmed, clarified, and expanded these findings revealing additional benefits and insights across humanistic, educational, well-being, and music dimensions. This study rendered further supporting evidence for the CRAFT program as a viable intervention for promoting student musicians’ well-being and academic careers with relevant implications to other educational contexts, settings, and populations. Large mixed-methods investigations are needed to comprehensively understand and ascertain the efficacy and effectiveness of the CRAFT program to enhance the well-being and academic experience of student musicians.

노작교육론 기반의 ‘공동체 역량’신장을 위한 침선 공예 프로그램 개발: 두루주머니형 파빌리온 제작 사례를 중심으로

As the untact culture spread due to post-COVID-19 and Edutech emerged as a spotlight industry, the craft program was developed while sympathizing with the reality that students' solidarity with the community was weakening. This study focuses on finding out the effectiveness of pavilion production classes using sewing crafts programs based on work-oriented education in cultivating community competence. This study aims to integrate sewing crafts and art programs, provide a place for students to learn to develop a sense of community and improve their abilities, analyze the educational value of sewing crafts as a medium for com-munity harmony, and propose a nine-session instructional plan using it. This plan encourages students to promote relationships, mutual reciprocity, empathy/care, which are elements of community competence by creating pavilions. Pavilion refers to a building made temporarily for special purposes at an exhibition hall or fair and is established as a meaningful outdoor project in the field of architecture and culture and arts. In this study, students must build structures for pavilion production, and the structures are wrapped by a material called Gwangmok through hand sewing. This study aims to suggest the necessity of effective edu-cational research in emphasizing the importance of promoting a sense of community and strengthening community ties by integrating work-oriented education into art education.

금속 공예를 활용한 미술치료가 우울감과 스트레스 감소에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

The current study is to explore the effects of art therapy that conjugate metal craft on depression and stress relief. According to mental health survey reported by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (2021), one out of every four adults go through events that disturb their psychological wellbeing at least once at some point in their life. Stress and depression can be triggered when we run into unpleasant situations such as interpersonal conflicts, job unsatisfactory and salary issues while we go through our daily businesses. According to the study, if these triggered stress and possible signs of depression are left unattended and unsettled, it could lead to decline in enthusiasm and reduced confidence and even lead to some extreme cases involving serious mental diseases.
 From April to July of 2022, six trainees from J studio located in city A were selected and set up as a group, from which 6 teams of study subjects were selected for the study. Prior to the study, all participants were asked to complete surveys for depression and stress, which were used for further analysis. The program was divided into three phases: metal craft fundamentals; crafting rings and necklaces; and jewelry setting. The participants were cross-examined during each phase for any changes in their thoughts or behaviors while being exposed to depression and stress. During their metal craft program, participants went through repeated process such as filing and sanding and obtained psychological stability; and using crafted products such as finished jewelry to arouse interests to study its positive effects on stress and depression. The study holds significance as it explores ways to enable art therapy utilizing crafts and study the need for therapy with crafting techniques.

A Feasibility Study of a Program Integrating Mindfulness, Yoga, Positive Psychology, and Emotional Intelligence in Tertiary-Level Student Musicians

ObjectivesHigher education student musicians face high physical, psychological, and emotional demands affecting their well-being and academic experience. This study examined the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of the so-called CRAFT program, based on mindfulness, yoga, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence, to improve psychological well-being, psychological distress, emotional regulation, and physical flexibility amongst tertiary education student musicians.MethodsUsing a single-arm pre-post study design, student musicians (n = 25) at a royal conservatory of music in Spain followed a 25-week CRAFT program that was curricularly implemented during the academic year 2018/2019, once a week for 50 min. The outcome measures included were the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), the Subjective Psychological Well-Being Subscale (SPWS), the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21), and the Sit and Reach Test (SRT).ResultsPaired samples t-test and practical significance analyses revealed significant improvements for the total scale of the FFMQ (g = 0.28), the Observe (g = 0.44) and Describe (g = 0.38) subscales of the FFMQ, the SPWS (g = 0.32), the Reappraisal subscale of the ERQ (g = 0.43), and the SRT (g = 0.39). A similar pattern of results was observed in a filtered sample (n = 15) when excluding participants simultaneously engaged in yoga/meditation activities other than the CRAFT program.ConclusionsThese results indicated that the CRAFT program is a promising intervention for improving mindfulness skills and health and well-being states and abilities amongst higher education student musicians. Further research is needed to substantiate these findings and extend them to similar settings and populations with complex psychophysical concerns.

Mindfulness, Yoga, and Emotional Intelligence for Music and Language Education: The CRAFT Program

Mindfulness, Yoga, and Emotional Intelligence for Music and Language Education: The CRAFT Program

Measuring persistence of energy savings after COVID-19

Publicly funded energy efficiency projects require measurement to inform climate and energy policy, craft program budgets, and determine the cost-benefit ratios of different projects. One of the key inputs into cost-benefit analyses is the concept of an effective useful life, or EUL. This value, typically measured in years, lets programs and policy makers estimate how many years the energy savings will last. For most programs, this measurement is done based on manufacturing assumptions, i.e. the laboratory determined that an LED lightbulb would last for 10,000 h, or 15 years. New programs, using a methodology known as “advanced measurement and verification (AM&V)” measure the EUL using a survival analysis of the savings. We ask the question, “At what point will this project be savings less than 50% of what it saved on day 1.” We measure the energy consumption of a facility at the meter level to determine how much energy is being used compared to when the measure was installed. COVID-19 has thrown a wrench in the ability to compare energy use across years. Not only is there a disruption from COVID-19 directly, but entire industries have fundamentally changed the way that they operate their buildings and run their businesses. We are able to extract out the impacts of COVID for many of our building’s models, but not all. Using methods derived from independent, third-party evaluators, we have developed a new way to measure the ongoing persistence of energy savings using self-report data from participants at the project level, rather than at the savings level. Doing this will allow us to compare the data from pre-COVID with the new world full of post-COVID data, and to assess the true impacts of COVID on the energy efficiency industry’s most basic cost-effectiveness assumptions.

Developing Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Yoga and Mindfulness for the Well-Being of Student Musicians in Spain.

Here, we report on a quasi-experimental study to explore the applicability and perceived benefits of the CRAFT program, which is based on mindfulness, yoga, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence, to improve higher education student musicians’ health and well-being during the lockdown. A subset of student musicians at a Higher Conservatory of Music in Spain followed the CRAFT program during the academic year 2019/2020, 1 h per week as part of their curriculum. Students enrolled in CRAFT-based elective subjects formed the CRAFT program group (n = 40), while other students represented the control group (n = 53). The onset of the national lockdown elicited by the COVID-19 pandemic occurred halfway through the program, which was subsequently delivered in an online format. We administered an online survey to explore the effect that the exposure to the CRAFT program had in terms of how participants dealt with various health and well-being concerns arising from the COVID-19 lockdown. There was a significantly higher proportion of proactive participants in the CRAFT program group, 92%, than in the control group, 58%, in terms of implementing practices to improve their health and well-being during the lockdown. Additionally, significantly more participants acknowledged perceived benefits from their practices in the CRAFT program group, 78%, than in the control group, 52%. Among proactive participants, yoga/meditation was the most implemented in the CRAFT program group, followed by exercise, and other yoga/meditation practices, whereas in the control group, exercise and Alexander technique-based practices were the most applied. In the CRAFT program group, the highest rate of perceived benefits was from yoga/meditation CRAFT-based practices, 51%, followed by exercise, 32%, and other yoga/meditation practices, 27%, whereas in the control group, benefits were reported by 29% of exercising participants and 16% for those having practiced the Alexander technique. A similar pattern was observed when excluding participants with previous yoga/meditation experience. This study revealed how participants can independently apply learned skills from the CRAFT program in response to a naturally occurring life event of unprecedented global impact, suggesting that previous exposure to mindfulness and yoga is likely to have a beneficial effect on how young adults react towards exceptionally stressful conditions.

The Effect of Art and Craft Program on Elderly Emotions

목적: 본 연구는 고령화 사회에 따른 노인 인구 증가로 인해 대두되고 있는 노인의 여가생활에 자주 활용되는 수공예 활동프로그램을 적용하여 프로그램이 노인의 정서 변화에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 하였다. 연구방법: 연구대상은 G지역 내 센터에 등록된 60세 이상의 노인 13명으로 2019년 5월 21일부터 6월 21일까지 주 2회씩 4주간, 총 8회로 진행되었다. 매회기당 프로그램 운영은 2시간씩 진행되었다. 결과 도출을 위해 SPSS 24.0을 사용하여 빈도분석, Mann-Whitney U test, Wilcoxon 부호순위 검정으로 분석하였다. 연구결과: 연구 분석 결과, 수공예 활동 전·후 정서 변화를 분석하였을 때, 행복감, 자기효능감, 생활만족도에서 유의한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타나고, 스트레스, 우울에서는 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. 모든 수공예 활동이 기분 변화에 유의한 차이를 주었으며 활동별 분석 결과 종이공예 활동을 했을 때 기분 변화량이 가장 높은 것으로 나타났다. 결론: 수공예 활동 프로그램이 행복감, 자기효능감, 생활만족도 향상에 영향을 미친다고 설명할 수 있다. 본 연구 결과를 토대로 노인의 정서에 긍정적 영향을 줄 수 있는 수공예 프로그램 개발 및 보급 필요성을 뒷받침하는 기초를 마련했다고 사료된다.

Improving Normative and Adaptive Teacher Skills in Teaching PKWU Subjects

Based on the existing guidelines in the 2013 revised curriculum, Creative Products and Entrepreneurship (PKWU) subjects have changed for the number of hours of lessons, namely currently there are six lesson hours for one week, while for adaptive and normative subjects the number of lessons has decreased. However, the teachers at SMK YPI generally do not have dual competencies that can support skills in teaching PKWU subjects. Therefore, training and mentoring are needed as provisions for teachers in teaching PKWU subjects so that the competence and skills of teachers who teach adaptive and normative subjects can increase. The main problem with partners is that the craft program has not been implemented because there is still a need for skills material to be given to students related to entrepreneurship. This service activity is carried out by providing training to normative and adaptive teachers to teach PKWU with materials, namely graphic design and making Bluetooth Mini Amplifier. From the results of the activities carried out, an evaluation was obtained, namely that for an understanding of the PKWU subject, 100% of his knowledge increased. For the use of graphic design applications and their application after training activities, it shows that 85.71% of normative and adaptive teachers know how to use graphic design applications and 14.29% really know and understand the use of graphic design applications. As for the knowledge about making bluetooth mini amplifiers a number of 14.29% of normative and adaptive teachers know enough and 85.71% of normative and adaptive teachers know how to make bluetooth mini amplifiers.

L’impact de l’expression artistique sur la participation sociale des aînés suite à la tragédie ferroviaire à Lac-Mégantic

Seniors were greatly affected, as was the rest of the population, by the railway tragedy that occurred in the Lac-Mégantic community in 2013. In the aftermath of the events, the Canadian Red Cross settled there in order to support the population and to implement the Arts and Crafts program, which includes arts and crafts workshops for seniors with loss of autonomy. This article presents the results of an exploratory study aimed at determining the effects of these workshops on the elderly who benefitted from them. The results show that this artistic expression has led participants to break free from their isolation, develop their self-esteem, feel pleasure, and enjoy life again. The positive response from the people of the community of Lac Mégantic to the projects produced by the participants suggests that artistic expression is a form of social participation since it demonstrates a vitality that is always present in people who were no longer believed capable of innovation. It becomes a source of hope for a community that is going through such a hard time.

Learn English to the Rhythm of Bach: An Eclectic Methodology for Learning English Based on Suggestopedia and the CRAFT Program

Learn English to the Rhythm of Bach: An Eclectic Methodology for Learning English Based on Suggestopedia and the CRAFT Program

Sukaq and the Raven by R. Goose & K. McCluskey

Goose, Roy & McCluskey, Kerry. Sukaq and the Raven. Illustrated by Soyeon Kim. Inhabit Media, 2017.
 Inhabit Media is a quality publisher and Sukaq and the Raven matches their usual exemplary quality of story and imagery. The story is a traditional legend from Inuit storyteller Roy Goose illustrated using Kim’s beautiful three-dimensional dioramas. This wondrous illustration style previously earned Kim the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award for her work You Are Stardust and it is easy to see how her artwork is award-winning. The depth created by the illustrations perfectly complements the story which follows Sukaq as he falls into his favourite bedtime story—how the raven created the world. As with many of Inhabit Media’s works, this story is distinctly Inuit while remaining understandable to everyone which makes it extremely useful in classrooms and libraries.
 The audience for this piece could range from pre-reading children to later elementary students as the full-page illustrations provide enough interest to any reader. Most young readers will need a reading buddy due to the amount of text and the complexity of some words. Artistically-minded readers may be intrigued by the three-dimensional diorama illustration style though educators or librarians may find this story to be a great introduction to a craft program involving dioramas. Parents may also find this story works well as a bedtime story due to the flow and lack of interrupting onomatopoeias (boom, beep, etc.). I highly recommend this book given how the illustrations and story combine to create a book that is pleasing to readers of many ages.
 Highly recommended: 4 stars out of 4 Reviewer: Lorisia MacLeod
 Lorisia MacLeod is an Instruction Librarian at NorQuest College Library and a proud member of the James Smith Cree Nation. When not working on indigenization or diversity in librarianship, Lorisia enjoys reading almost any variation of Sherlock Holmes, comics, or travelling.

초등학교 공예실기 수업에서 공예프로그램 재료실험과 확장에 관한 연구

초등학교 공예실기 수업에서 공예프로그램 재료실험과 확장에 관한 연구

Challenges Faced by Secondary Teachers in Teaching Arts Education in Fiji - A Case Study of Western Division

<p>Art and craft education is the area of learning which is based upon the visual, drawing, painting, pottery, weaving, print making, making artifacts using recycled materials and to name a few. This research focuses on the challenges<strong> </strong><strong>faced by secondary teachers in teaching Arts Education.</strong> The idea was researched to establish how art and craft education can be utilized to increase levels of confidence, motivation and skills in Secondary school teachers. The research used a mixed method approach for gathering results. This study, using a questionnaire designed by the investigator, provided an insight into secondary art and craft teachers, principals and curriculum developers of art education. A group of 20 participants was selected through convenient sampling for the purpose of this study. Findings show a positive correlation between the art and craft program at the center of this research and the advancement of the skill acquisition, motivation and confidence. The recommendations after the study and analysis of results should enshrine great details on how art and craft can become a mainstream subject and shed its light on the minds of the children to gain its due respect and position to where it naturally belongs.</p>

Collaborative circuit designs using the CRAFT repository

This paper provides an overview of the CRAFT repository, which exposes a collaborative gateway enabling circuit designers to share methods, documentation and intellectual property. The main goal for the repository’s development is to ensure that future designs for custom integrated circuits need not be reinvented for each design and fabrication cycle. This paper presents the architecture, design, and implementation of the collaborative repository, which capitalizes on the recent advances in production quality open-source collaborative frameworks, which are interfaced using a lightweight Javascript front-end to satisfy the requirements of the DARPA’s CRAFT program. The repository has been developed as an EmberJS application (front-end), that interacts with an instance of the Open Science Framework (OSF). This paper contextualizes the framework from the viewpoint of circuit designers and outlines the advantages of the tools and visualizations offered by the repository, in terms of increasing the efficiency of designers’ tasks. To this end, we also provide a description of two specific tools that have been exposed using the repository, which build on JSON schemas and allow users to develop and visualize the circuit design flow diagrams and the intellectual property they can reuse to accelerate their design process.

Rural Educational Tourism's Potential

Growth trends in life-long learning, and rural tourism indicate potential for the rural educational tourism sector; however; there is very little empirical research on how this niche tourism, which may include activities such as, agricultural school excursions/exchange programmes, “farm-to-table” culinary courses, artisan craft programs, etc., might build local capacity, support sustainable rural economies, and mobilize place-based ways of learning that are required for global sustainability. This research project, which is at the conceptual/exploratory stage, aims to explore the economic, social and environmental impacts of rural educational tourism. There is no existing research that brings together rural development and place-based educational tourism in a Canadian context. Sub-questions with particular relevance to rural development policy and planning include: How was rural educational tourism integrated within a greater economic and learning development strategy? What new roles and competencies did stakeholders require and how were they developed? What changes from traditional forms of policy development were required? How were issues of sustainability, environmental impact, and conservation addressed? How did the quality and quantity of interconnections change? Since educational tourism has received very little research attention, comparative case studies with mixed methods are a suitable approach. I hope to include educational tourism activities in rural Aboriginal communities, pending consultation, and with an understanding of Aboriginal research as being research by and with Aboriginal Peoples. My approach emphasizes and values the existing strengths, assets and knowledge systems of rural communities.

The effects of a combined physical activity, recreation, and art and craft program on ADL, cognition, and depression in the elderly.

[Purpose] To determine the effects of a combined physical activity, arts and crafts, and recreational program on the activities of daily living (ADL), cognitive function, and depression in the elderly. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-eight elderly persons aged 65 years or older who live in P City, South Korea participated in a program combining arts and crafts and physical and recreational activities, twice weekly for eight weeks (a total of 16 sessions). The subjects’ ADL, cognitive function, and depression were measured before and after the program using the following assessment instruments: the FIM, MMSE-K, and BDI, respectively. [Results] The results showed that, after the program intervention, ADL were remarkably improved for both men and women, cognitive function increased considerably, and depression levels significantly decreased, especially for elderly women. [Conclusion] The results of the present study indicate that a program combining physical and recreational activities, as well as arts and crafts, had positive effects on the health of the elderly and provide evidence for managing their health.

The parent's modular toolkit: Development of an online craft program for parents of emerging adults with SUD

The parent's modular toolkit: Development of an online craft program for parents of emerging adults with SUD

Illegitimate: When Moderate Muslims Speak Out

Illegitimate: When Moderate Muslims Speak Out