Girl child education in visual arts: opportunities and challenges
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2004-11-14
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The study employed the qualitative research approach with interviewing and questionnaires to analyze the opportunities and challenges that girls encounter in the study of the Visual Arts in Senior Secondary Schools in Ghana.
The study adopted quantitative research approach to study girl’s education in four Senior Secondary Schools in Ghana. One girls’ school and one co-educational school.
The sample studied comprised 300 girls and five women teachers in the four selected schools in the Cape Coast-Mfantsiman districts.
The study revealed that fewer girls in Senior Secondary School patronize Visual Art because many schools lack the necessary tools, materials, equipment and studios to promote student creativity. Girls also have very few practicing female artists to serve as role models for them to emulate.
There are however, opportunities and benefits for girls who offer Visual Arts. These include employment skills acquisition in weaving, printing and fashion designing.
The challenges include difficulty in handling heavy tools, kneading large lumps of clay and problems with figure drawing.
The study recommend among other things that schools offering Visual Arts should equip their studio to enhance teaching and learning, girls must not be pressurized to study science if they prefer to study Visual Arts, and Art must be accorded the due respect in the educational system and more schools should offer Visual Arts to encourage more girls into the various disciplines.
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Art Education, College of Arts and Social Sciences in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in (Art Education), 2004