PHD-Department of Fashion, Design & Marketing

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    Skill acquisition and utilisation of millinery art by higher national diploma fashion design internship students in Ghana.
    (Kenyatta university, 2023-09) Agordah, Faustina Emefa; Isika, Juliet Kaindi; Kisato, Jacqueline
    Millinery art has an enormous contribution to the performance of Fashion Design graduates in the fashion industry. Competency-based training in Ghanaian Technical Universities demands a special focus on the various courses of study to determine the effectiveness of the skills acquired. The objectives of the study were to identify the interest of HND Fashion Design students in millinery art; to identify the adequacy of curriculum content used to train students in millinery art and to evaluate the instructional resources used in skills transfer in the millinery art across the Technical Universities; to establish whether millinery art skills acquired by HND Fashion Design students are used during internship. The study hypotheses determined the significant relationship between millinery art skill acquisition of HND Fashion Design students and curriculum content, content proficiency, instructional strategies and resources and to develop a virtual academic instructional content on gaps identified in the study. Multi-stage sampling and systematic random sampling techniques were used to select five Technical Universities and students in the five regions of Ghana. Census and Purposive sampling techniques were used to select lecturers. That is 31 lecturers who teach millinery accessories and 28 industry supervisors of the students. Proportion random and stratified sampling was used to select 249 students from a population of 662. The study adopted a cross-sectional descriptive survey to collect qualitative and quantitative data with a response rate of 88.6% for Lecturers, 90.3% for industry supervisors and 100% for HND Fashion Design students. Descriptive statistics were used to generate groups and summarize data in tables, percentages, pie charts and bar graphs. Themes were generated and used to group qualitative data and analysed descriptively to complement quantitative findings in the study. Curriculum content in millinery is not abreast with current trends and 75% of the lecturers indicated they do not have enough skills in millinery. The institutions have limited resources for teaching and learning millinery art skills. The study revealed most of the HND Fashion Design students, 57% did not use millinery art skills during internship. One-way multiple analysis of variance was used to determine the instructional strategies used across the Fashion Design departments in millinery art skills acquisition and curriculum content and millinery art skills acquired by the HND Fashion Design students. MANOVA analyses on hypotheses one and two were tested at p ˂ 0.05 alpha index and were rejected due to statistically significant differences between instructional strategies used across the technical universities as well as curriculum content and millinery art skills acquired. Multiple linear regression was used to determine the moderating effect of curriculum content, instructional strategies/resources used for millinery skills acquisition process and millinery skills acquired. Curriculum content and millinery skills acquired was accepted at R2 = .301, (5, 243) =17.391, p = .535 ˃ 0.05 with weak correlation of 30.1%. Instructional strategies and millinery skills acquired, R2 = .031, F (4, 244) =3.644, p ˂ 0.05, R2 =.043 was rejected with very weak correlation of 4.3%, and instructional resources used and millinery skills acquired, R2 = 508, F (20, 228) =11.794, p < 0.05 was rejected with moderately average correlation of 50.8%. Additionally, a video documentary was developed on the skills gaps found in the study. The study recommends that the Fashion Design departments of the TUs should review the millinery accessory curriculum using the CIPP model. They must also invest in instructional resources to enhance skills acquisition in millinery art in the Fashion Design of the Technical Universities