{"product_id":"craft-shaping-society-lindy-joubert-9789811694714","title":"Craft Shaping Society: Educating in the Crafts--The Global Experience. Book One","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book focusses on the role of craft as a continuing cultural practice and the revival of disappearing skills in contemporary society. It includes twenty-five essays by highly regarded artisans, academics, technologists, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, curators, and researchers from many countries representing a wide range of global craft traditions and innovations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors explain their professional practices and creative pathways with knowledge, experience, and passion. They offer insightful analyses of their traditions within their culture and in the marketplace, alongside the evolution of technology as it adapts to support experimentation and business strategies. They write about teaching and research informing their practice; and they explain the importance of their tools and materials in function and form of the objects they make. The essays reveal a poignant expression of their successes, disappointments, and opportunities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book offers case studiesof how artisans have harnessed the traditions of the past alongside the latest design technologies. The authors reveal how global craft is not only a vehicle for self-expression and creativity, but also for being deeply relevant to the world of work, community and environmental sustainability. The book makes the vital link between skills, knowledge, education, and employment, and fills a much-needed niche in Technical, Vocational Education and Training TVET.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lindy Joubert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9811694710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789811694714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d","brand":"Lindy Joubert","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48487220576511,"sku":"9789811694714","price":169.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be64437b-1852-49df-85fb-f6f26b1bbc8b.jpg?v=1778059126","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/craft-shaping-society-lindy-joubert-9789811694714","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}