
Career Opportunity for Ghanaian Youth: An Evaluation of Jewellery Subject under Visual Art Programme in Senior High Schools in Ghana
Author(s) -
Mohammed Kwaku Baidoo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
social education research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2717-5731
pISSN - 2717-5723
DOI - 10.37256/ser.222021767
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , government (linguistics) , psychology , sociology , engineering , medical education , mathematics education , computer science , medicine , library science , philosophy , linguistics
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the Jewellery subject in Senior High Schools in Ghana to ascertain
the career opportunity in jewellery for Ghanaian youth. The study adopted the Mixed Methods Research approach with descriptive and document analysis as the research method used. The findings of the study show that jewellery students are not able to practise as jewellers after their studies, because the content of the jewellery subjects and its associated exercises does not correspond to the skills one is required to become a jeweller. Coupled with the fact that the teachers who teach the jewellery are mostly not professional jewellers, which therefore limit the kind of practical jewellery that they can teach the students. Although the motivating factor for introducing jewellery is good, however, the rhetorics of the government that she wants students to acquire skills in jewellery making does not support the reality on the ground.