Brief
Design artefacts / strategies that enable meaningful sharing, learning experiences and induction towards crafts of Khamir.
About Brand
Organisation working to re-establish traditional crafts of Kachchh.
Vision
Established sustainable crafts and the artisan’s value in the world.
Objective
Cultural Integration and sustainable practices.
Sugri Shala
Education programme by khamir.
Aim
Integrate traditional handicrafts of Kachchh.
Stance
Position crafts in schools as an opportunity to learn
Target Audience
Age Group: 10 to 13 years (5th to 8th graders)
The target audience lie between concrete to formal (operational stage) according to Piaget’s theory on cognitive development where they start to develop logical thinking skills.
Logical Thinking
Ability to analyze and organise information and providing solutions to the conclusion identified problems in a systematic way.
Why Important?
Improve decision making
Problem identification and Solving
Enhance Communication
Avoid making biased conclusions
Soft Skills
Individualistic behaviors and social abilities that
enable individuals to effectively adapt to their environment and work well with others in any environment.
logical thinking is a soft skill as it involves skills which are interpersonal and are not academic oriented.
Why Important?
Required in every field
Contributes in growth
Adaptability
Handle situation
Problem Identification
(Through Primary Research)
Lack of practical execution/application
Lack of exposure to the real world environment
Inefficient mode of evaluating
Mental pressurisation
Inadequate focus on soft skills
Change of learning mode
Intent
Teaching organisational and systematic skills through weaving for 7th and 8th graders.
Types of organisational and systematic skills
Time management
Information
Coordination
Physical organisation
Planning
Strategy
The skills will be taught to the students throughout the process utilising the craft’s inbuilt abilities.
For overall time management their will be a checklist which is inspired by the advent calendar concept, where children collectively after completing their task will open a number marked section having different artefacts of Khamir. They can enjoy making the craft and learn about the same after the daily schedule (free time).
Curating the tasks in a more simple and understandable form by providing relatable physical reference.
Advent Calendar inspired box
Evaluation
Cleanliness race, children in groups will clean their workstations everyday after work in the provided time frame. This will strengthen their learning and will be easy to evaluate how much learning has the child grasp.
Quiz- Children will be asked which skill did they learn in the activity they did. This will help them to understand the intent and the purpose of the activities, with the understanding of what these skills mean, how and why are they important.
Schedule
Days - 10 days
Duration - 3 hours (12:30 to 1:30 lunch break)
Number of students - 15 maximum
Day-wise Schedule
