PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - SPURNÁ, Jitka
AU  - BASLER, Jaromír
AU  - MRÁZEK, Michal
TI  - BOOKBINDING AS PART OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DP  - 2019 Dec 30
TA  - Trends in education
PG  - 5--19
VI  - 12
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/tvv.2019.005
IS  - 18058949
AB  - Crafts, traditional manual production, creativity, and originality are traditional and historically contingent concepts closely associated with human activity in the manufacture of practical but also artistic products. People turn to these unique products with a nostalgic vision in order to break out of the current trend of industrial uniformity, which bears the signs of production procedures based on automation, digitalization, use of robots, and other technologically advanced production processes. The life of today's generation of children is dominated by information and communication technology. Educational strategies emphasize the development of competences focusing on the knowledge and skills of using modern technology, and thus react to the requirements of high-tech industry. However, experts in technical training emphasise the fact that we tend to forget the development of manual skills, technical creativity, and students' positive attitudes to crafts. Students must be provided with sufficient technical education so that technology becomes part of their everyday life in the modern as well as traditional form. The implementation of technical education is an increasingly discussed topic, and in the context of technical advancement it appears necessary to innovate the system of education already in elementary school. Bookbinding is one of the oldest crafts, but is on the decline in the context of the development of modern ICT technology. The present paper describes selected technological procedures of manual bookbinding production and gives an example of good practice concerning the implementation of a selected procedure in technical education in elementary school.