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Weekend Pottery Workshop at White Gum Valley Special School1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Marion J. Davies
Marion J. Davies*
Affiliation:
Lefroy Road, Beaconsfield, W.A. 6162
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Unless there is a specialist art and craft teacher in the school, this area of instruction is left to the classroom teacher. Such was the case at White Gum Valley. As my special interest is pottery, I use this medium for craft lessons. Many students from other classes expressed the desire to take pottery, so I decided to hold a weekend workshop for them.

The general aims were to consolidate expressed interest in a rewarding leisure time activity, to help develop mature attitudes, good work habits and responsibility. I also hoped to foster perseverance, care and attention to detail, to increase concentration span and to develop a critical appraisal of one’s work.

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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , November 1978 , pp. 28 - 29
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1978

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Footnotes

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White Gum valley Special School is a special school which caters for 180 mentally retarded students ranging from preschoolers to eighteen years of age.

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1 White Gum valley Special School is a special school which caters for 180 mentally retarded students ranging from preschoolers to eighteen years of age.