Since craft education was absorbed into higher education (HE), the concept of crafts and the demographic profiles of crafts practitioners have evolved, yet little is known about the extent to which craft programmes in HE are adapting to 21st-century changes and trends. This study aimed to investigate current HE crafts curricula in South Korea, focusing on students' perception of the efficacy of academic crafts training, and to identify the knowledge and skillsets required for competence in creative industries. A content analysis of craft curricula in HE and a focus group interview and survey of students revealed that students are interested in the blurred territories between artistry and entrepreneurship and the application of crafts with the opportunities enabled by new technologies. Accordingly, HE craft programmes are reforming to meet the needs of the new generation of practitioners, but traditional discipline-specific training with a fine arts approach and the division between studio/theory and academic/professional course content persists. We suggest that HE programmes offer more craft-specific entrepreneurial education integrated into studio-based courses with hands-on practice and interdisciplinary content to meet students' needs and foster the flexible mindset required to become a craft practitioner.

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设计可持续工艺课程：平衡学术和实践培训

由于手工艺教育被吸收到高等教育 (HE) 中，手工艺的概念和手工艺从业者的人口统计资料已经发生了变化，但人们对 HE 中的手工艺课程在多大程度上适应 21 世纪的变化和趋势知之甚少。本研究旨在调查韩国当前的 HE 手工艺课程，重点关注学生对学术手工艺培训效果的看法，并确定创意产业能力所需的知识和技能组合。对高等教育工艺课程的内容分析以及对学生的焦点小组访谈和调查显示，学生对艺术和创业之间模糊的领域以及新技术带来的机会的工艺应用感兴趣。因此，HE工艺课程正在改革以满足新一代从业者的需求，但传统的学科特定培训与美术方法以及工作室/理论和学术/专业课程内容之间的划分仍然存在。我们建议高等教育课程提供更多针对手工艺的创业教育，并将其融入工作室课程中，包括动手实践和跨学科内容，以满足学生的需求并培养成为手工艺从业者所需的灵活思维方式。