A manual on the teaching of quilting, patchwork and smocking in schools and colleges in Hohoe Municipality, Ghana

Abstract

In Ghana, quilting, patching and smocking are not well established in the schools and colleges as part of the teachers’ curriculum. Teachers play a key role in ensuring that every learner can participate in every learning process in the practical subjects like quilting, patching and smocking in schools. Availability of manual as a teaching strategy or a guide puts a huge demand on teachers in terms of time and resources. Based on this, the study investigated the development of a manual that encourages and guide teachers in teaching quilting, patching and smocking. The study focused on teachers of school and colleges in Hohoe Municipality of Ghana. The target population comprised all teachers in 14 schools and colleges in Hohoe Municipality of Ghana. Census and purposive sampling technique was employed in selecting all the 14 and 34 quilting, patching and smocking teachers at the Senior High/Technical Institute in Hohoe Municipality of Ghana. The findings indicated that teachers have a positive perception towards teaching and learning of quilting, patchwork and smocking. The finding showed that lack of sufficient time, and too many recommended quilting/patchwork texts books are major challenge to effective teaching of quilting/patching and smocking. The study discovered that the developed manual can identify and appreciate the guidelines in the teaching and learning of quilting, patching and smocking. It was concluded that the developed manual could improve teachers understanding, and be useful for the purpose of improving effective teaching and learning of quilting, patching and smocking at the various schools and colleges. The study recommended that Ghana Education Service should see to it that the needed tool, materials and facilities are made available to the schools in order to motivate the teachers to readily and effectively teach quilting/patchwork and smocking to the students.