Craft disciplines such as ceramics, glass, and textiles might fall into the category of applied arts, industrial arts, decorative arts, fine arts, or crafts.1 They have been understood as “medium-designated” practices, the values of which are correlated with material objects and their production (Rowley, 1997). In Finland, due to the growth of design for industrial production in the 1950s,2 the...

We present a framework for clustering with cluster-specific feature selection. The framework, CRAFT, is derived from asymptotic log posterior formulations of nonparametric MAP-based clustering models. CRAFT handles assorted data, i.e., both numeric and categorical data, and the underlying objective functions are intuitively appealing. The resulting algorithm is simple to implement and scales ni...

In Latvia, the aim, content, and name of subject craft education have changed several times. The most recent transformation to “craft education” has been made following general reform, which gradually implemented since 2020. This study aims investigate how purpose content learning in Latvian comprehensive schools as a result this reform comparison previous period. A qualitative was carried out ...