Designing curriculum model in pottery for entrepreneurship

Abstract

xv newlineABSTRACT newlineEducation is the best tool for achieving societal evolution. The world is undergoing newlineexpeditious transformation in the knowledge landscape, and the need for a skilled newlineworkforce is strongly felt with each passing day. The National Education Policy 2020 newlineaddresses the growing developmental imperatives of our country. The Policy comes up newlinewith refurbishing all ingredients of education, aligning with the 21st-century skills, while newlinebuilding upon Indian value systems and culture. India is the treasure house of rich craft newlineculture, of which pottery is one of the most age-old crafts, practised across several newlinegenerations. newlineThe research problem purports to design a curriculum model in pottery, to develop the newlinefullest potential of any learning aspirant, with entrepreneurial intention and curriculum newlineperception in pottery, for understanding the principles and concepts, instilling foundational newlinecapacities and imbibing entrepreneurship in pottery. Extensive related literature reading newlineby the researcher highlighted that there exists a lacuna of research evidence in pottery newlinecurriculum designing and pedagogy. The study employs a Mixed Sequential quan-gtQUAL newlinemethod. newlineTo achieve the objectives, the researcher first assessed entrepreneurial intention and newlineperception towards the need for a pottery curriculum among learning aspirants and figured newlineout the relationship between them using a self-constructed 5-point scale and Spearman s newlinecorrelation. To understand the skills, competencies, needs, opportunities and challenges in newlinepottery, the researcher conducted an extensive field survey in four well-known pottery newlinesites in Bengal. The researcher obtained primary data from active field functionaries using newlineself-constructed questionnaires consisting of close-ended and open-ended questions. The newlinequestionnaires were analyzed graphically and thematically. The researcher also newlinexvi newlinemaintained a field diary for noting down every observation in the field- the process of newlinecrafting, seller-buyer relationship, gestures and reactions of all respondents. Dat