Studying for a degree in crafts
Understanding technology. Promoting craftsmanship. Shaping the future.
The subject of handicrafts combines technical understanding with creative and practical work. The aim is to get children excited about materials, constructions, tools and technical contexts and to promote the development of manual skills and abilities. Social and economic issues are always taken into account in order to sensitize learners to the local, regional and global challenges of their time and to enable sustainable development. Teachers focus on encouraging learners to discover, try things out and create independently.
In the "Teacher Training - Elementary Schools" degree program at the TUD Dresden University of Technology, you can study crafts as an elective subject in the artistic-technical field with German or mathematics as the main subject. The course combines subject-specific scientific principles with subject-specific didactic content and prepares students for practical work lessons in elementary school.
Students acquire knowledge of materials, tools, machines and technical processes as well as skills for planning and designing child-friendly, activity-oriented lessons. Creativity, sustainability and problem-solving thinking play a central role here.
The course content includes, among other things
- Fundamentals of the subject of handicrafts
- Tools and machines
- Technical systems, materials and processes
- Planning and production of technical objects
- Didactics of handicraft lessons
The course combines manual skills with current technical and social developments and opens up a wide range of opportunities to help children actively shape their world.
Information on the primary school teaching degree and the content of the subject of handicrafts
The ZLSB information page Teacher Training - Elementary Schools (enrolment from winter semester 2023/24) summarizes the most important information about the degree program. Here you will also find the current study regulations for the degree program Teacher Training - Elementary Schools, which contains detailed information on the course content of the subject on pages 274 - 279.
Works student portal in OPAL
You can find further internal information about your studies in the Works student portal. To be able to access it, you need your ZIH login and must be a registered student of the subject "Werk" at TU Dresden.
