Abstract
This text consists of two articles. In its first part this text deals with the concept of crafts in general and in elementary education.
It studies the official Czech curricular documents for elementary education (e.g. RVP ZV) to explore how these documents conceptualize the notion of craft.
It describes the extent to which the craft is supported by the purpose of professional orientation in the documents. The article points out that this conception limits the potential of craft and suggests the possible pitfalls concerning the developing objectives of several educational areas of RVP ZV.
The article shows that the development of craft skills is often marginalized in these areas, and scrutinizes the causes and consequences of this marginalization. In the second part, the text opens the question of whether this, together with the modernistic didactic's critique of craft - understood as the opposite of creating - inadvertently makes unimportant also the concepts of skill, knack and knowledge which have a specific importance for creating in general.
It discusses the possibilities and potentials of implementing the craft activities into general education.