Teaching and Learning Embroidery and Appliquė in Selected Senior High Schools in the Eastern Region of Ghana
| dc.contributor.author | Gamor, Sophia Emerald Emefa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-29T16:16:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-29T16:16:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-10 | |
| dc.description | A Thesis submitted to the school of Graduate Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Philosophy | |
| dc.description.abstract | Embroidery and Appliqué are topics that are taught under Fabric decoration techniques within the elective Textiles syllabus. The two topics are classified under Stitches in the Needlework component of Fabric decoration techniques. These are interesting topics but it seems many Textiles students are not able to acquire the knowledge and technical skills that they need to be able to answer West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) questions in Needlework as the Textiles syllabus was designed to do. The study therefore sought to investigate the teaching and learning of embroidery and appliqué in the Senior High Schools in Ghana, using four schools in Akuapem South District of Eastern Region as a case study to find out the challenges and to suggest ways of improving the teaching and learning outcomes. Specifically, the study set out to identify and describe how teaching and learning of embroidery and appliqué are done in the selected senior high schools, and also to find out how the strengths and weaknesses in the teaching and learning of embroidery and appliqué in the selected senior high schools can be resolved. Data needed to answer the research questions were collected using two sets of a self-administered questionnaire that were administered to 86 respondents comprising 79 Form 3 Textiles students and seven (7) teachers. Additional data were collected through observation during a practical intervention project in which the study respondents were taught embroidery and applique lessons. Analysis of the data collected revealed that the schools lack standard textbooks and reference materials to guide the teaching and learning of textiles; the required materials were also not available in the schools’ libraries. All the teachers in the four schools (coded A, B, C and D) were therefore using whatever reference textbooks they buy from private bookshops, and what they are able to borrow from their colleague teachers in different v vi schools. Out of the 7 teacher respondents, only the Textiles teacher in School C had specialized in embroidery and appliqué and was teaching both the theory and practical aspects of the two fabric decoration techniques while the other teachers were only teaching the theory of embroidery and appliqué by means of the lecture method. The schools had inadequate basic hand tools and equipment such as embroidery machines for Textiles and particularly, for effective teaching and learning of embroidery and appliqué so the students buy their own tools and materials for practical lessons. The intervention lessons made it possible for the textiles teachers and their students to learn about and use appropriate tools and materials to create different stitches and produce embroidery and appliqué articles, which gave the textiles teachers some level of proficiency to enable them to guide their students to do practical works in embroidery and appliqué for acquiring technical knowledge and skills for WASSCE and employment purposes. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | KNUST | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.knust.edu.gh/handle/123456789/17497 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | KNUST | |
| dc.title | Teaching and Learning Embroidery and Appliquė in Selected Senior High Schools in the Eastern Region of Ghana | |
| dc.type | Thesis |