Pattern Making Skills Training and Technical Universities Graduates' Performance in Freehand Cutting in the Indigenous Ghanaian Fashion Industry

Authors

  • Johnson Kofi Kassah Ho Technical University, Ho, Ghana
  • Mawutor Wovenu Ho Technical University, Ho, Ghana
  • Patience Aku Glauh-Jeh Ho Technical University, Ho, Ghana
  • Fortune Ama Amegah Ho Technical University, Ho, Ghana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47941/jep.1369

Keywords:

Pattern, Pattern Making, Freehand Cutting, Indigenous Fashion Industry.

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish pattern making skills training and technical university graduates' performance in freehand cutting in the indigenous Ghanaian fashion industry.

Methodology: A cross-sectional survey design was employed to carry out this study. The target population for this study was lecturers teaching pattern making and garment technology in technical universities in Ghana and B-Tech and HND self-employed graduates of the fashion design programme respectively. Purposive sampling and snowball sampling techniques were used to select the study participants. The sample size for the study was 228 (fashion graduates 200 & 28 lecturers). A questionnaire, interview guide and non-participant observation were the research instruments used for data collection. The data collected was analysed quantitatively and qualitatively to address the objectives. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21 was used to analyse the quantitative data obtained from a close-ended questionnaire. The qualitative data obtained through interviews and non-participant observation were analysed manually under various themes.

Findings: The results of the study indicated that flat pattern drafting and draping were the drafting skills always used by lecturers of technical universities in training their students while the reverse engineering technique was rarely used in technical universities. The study also established that the majority of self-employed fashion graduates were unable to perform freehand cutting since there were not exposed to the freehand cutting technique when they were in technical universities.

Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that freehand cutting should be introduced into the curriculum of technical universities which did not have it in their curriculum. The study also recommended that technical universities should organize workshops for their self-employed graduates who do not have freehand pattern making skills.

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Author Biographies

Johnson Kofi Kassah, Ho Technical University, Ho, Ghana

Department of Fashion Design and Textiles

Mawutor Wovenu, Ho Technical University, Ho, Ghana

Department of Fashion Design and Textiles

Patience Aku Glauh-Jeh, Ho Technical University, Ho, Ghana

Department of Fashion Design and Textiles

Fortune Ama Amegah, Ho Technical University, Ho, Ghana

Department of Fashion Design and Textiles

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Published

2023-07-24

How to Cite

Kassah, J. K. ., Wovenu, M. ., Glauh-Jeh, P. A. ., & Amegah, F. A. . (2023). Pattern Making Skills Training and Technical Universities Graduates’ Performance in Freehand Cutting in the Indigenous Ghanaian Fashion Industry. Journal of Education and Practice, 7(4), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.47941/jep.1369

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