Influence of Textile Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge on Senior High School Graduates Participation in Modernisation of Indigenous Ghanaian Textile Industry
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Date
2019-09
Authors
Kassah, Johnson Kofi
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of textile teachers’
pedagogical content knowledge on senior high school graduates’ participation in
the modernisation of the indigenous textile industry. Textile training institutions
in Ghana are designed to train the skills needed for the modernisation of the
large-scale and indigenous textile industries. There have been numerous
criticisms that the pedagogical content knowledge of textile teachers/lecturers
do not equip the school graduates with the skills required to modernise the textile
industries. Many studies have been done on the influence of pedagogical content
knowledge of Ghana tertiary textile lecturers on the modernisation of the largescale
textile industry. However, many studies have not been done on the
influence of pedagogical content knowledge of Ghana senior high school textile
teachers on the modernisation of the indigenous textile industry hence the need
for this study. The study was guided by the following five (5) specific objectives:
to establish the influence of demographic characteristics of Ghana senior high
schools textile teachers on school graduates participation in modernisation of the
indigenous textile industry; to establish the influence of pedagogical content
knowledge of Ghana senior high textile teachers on the skills acquisition of
school graduates; to determine the nature of pedagogical strategies used by
Ghana senior high school textile teachers in training their students; to determine
the influence of challenges facing Ghana senior high schools textile training on
the operations of indigenous textile industry; to develop a pedagogical model for
modernisation of the indigenous Ghanaian textile industry based on the findings
of the study. The study employed system theory. Purposive sampling was used
to select senior high schools offering textiles, simple random sampling was used
to randomly select textile teachers and snowball sampling was used to trace
senior high school textile graduates working in the indigenous textile industry.
The study design employed was a cross-sectional survey. The total sample size
was 243 (225 textile teachers, 12 textile graduates and 6 HoDs). The research
instruments used for data collection were a questionnaire, interview guide and
non-participant observation. Inferential statistics such as a one-way-analysis of
variance (ANOVA) and point-biserial correlation were used to test the null
hypotheses formulated. The study found that the pedagogical content knowledge
competencies of Ghana senior high schools textile teachers cannot equip school
graduates with the skills needed to modernise the indigenous textile industry.
The study also found that textile teachers used lecture and discussion methods
of teaching than skill acquisition instructional strategies such as field trips,
demonstration and work-based. The study recommended that the ministry of
education should periodically sponsor textile teachers to have industrial
attachments in both local and international renowned textile industries to learn
modern skills of textile manufacturing. The study also recommended that workbased
(industrial attachment) should be introduced into Ghana senior high
schools textile training system.
Description
A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Educational Communication and Technology in Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Art And Fashion Design Education) in School of Education, Kenyatta University, November, 2019
Keywords
Teachers’ Pedagogical, Content Knowledge, Senior High School Graduates, Participation in Modernisation, Ghanaian, Textile Industry