Influence of Textile Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge on Senior High School Graduates Participation in Modernisation of Indigenous Ghanaian Textile Industry

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dc.contributor.authorKassah, Johnson Kofi
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-02T09:46:59Z
dc.date.available2020-10-02T09:46:59Z
dc.date.issued2019-09
dc.descriptionA 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, 2019en_US
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/20488
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.subjectTeachers’ Pedagogicalen_US
dc.subjectContent Knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectSenior High School Graduatesen_US
dc.subjectParticipation in Modernisationen_US
dc.subjectGhanaianen_US
dc.subjectTextile Industryen_US
dc.titleInfluence of Textile Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge on Senior High School Graduates Participation in Modernisation of Indigenous Ghanaian Textile Industryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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