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Improving the Skill Component of Clothing and Textiles among Students in Second Cycle Institutions in Ghana and Its Effect on the Polytechnic Fashion Student. A Case Study of OLA Girls, Mawuko Girls and Mawuli Senior High School in Ho, Ghana
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Joana, Amankwa; Selase, Gbadegbe Richard; Selorm, Gbetodeme; Emefa, Agra Florence – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
For a nation like Ghana to develop, it is necessary to pay much attention to Vocational and Technical Education. This is so because school programmes that place emphasis on theory courses or humanities are no longer useful to the nation.Graduates who offer such programmes find it very difficult to secure employment in the Ghanaian job market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Clothing Instruction, Textiles Instruction
Underpinning the STEM Agenda through Technological Textiles? An Exploration of Design Technology Teachers' Attitudes
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Hughes, Chris; Bell, Dawne – Design and Technology Education, 2011
This paper discusses ongoing research into the role of design and technology education in emerging post industrial economies. Previous work (Hughes et al., 2010) focused on the changing characteristics of textiles technology in modern times and discussed how this could inform a design and technology curriculum related to the needs of a modern…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Curriculum Design, Technology Education, Teacher Attitudes