Textiles in Transition

Outcomes and Evaluation

Enterprise context

Through completing this project, students learned the importance of two very different cultures co-habiting in a multicultural society. The students developed their enterprise skills of co-operating with others, creating solutions to practical problems, liasing with members of public, gaining confidence, using their one initiative when required and designing and producing an unique and original piece of textiles work.

OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT:

Broadening public sphere through school and community collaboration and positive experience
Promote secondary school to potential pupils.
A variety of textiles skills were developed
Promotion of bi/multi/cultures

Final Evaluation

The project was a huge success mainly because of the variety of the enterprise skills that the students were taught by professional artists: from creating their own designs using a mixture of Bengali and English cultural ideas, ironing gold leaf onto material, screen printing their designs and finally using sewing machine to sew their pieces together to form a school bag.

Some student showed great skills at sewing, clearly leant from parent and grandparents. Others became more skilled and the project generally, due to its breadth, brought out different talents in each student involved.

Working together with primary students to show their work, describe and present it to them was an important enterprising contribution to their confidence and at conveying ideas to audiences.

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