Fashion Design Training in Technical Universities and Performance of Graduates in Computer-Aided Apparel Development in Ghana
Johnson Kofi Kassah,
Eric Bruce-Amartey Jnr,
Richard Acquaye
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
Pages:
78-82
Received:
26 May 2022
Accepted:
22 July 2022
Published:
12 August 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ajad.20220703.11
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Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine the competency of Higher National Diploma (HND) fashion design graduates in computer-aided design (CAD) apparel development. It further sought to identify and document the CAD apparel development activities in the fashion industry and examine the availability of CAD apparel development resources in technical universities in Ghana. A cross-sectional survey design was employed to carry out this study. The target population for the study were HND graduates of the fashion design programme, managers of the fashion industry, and lecturers teaching apparel development and production. Snowball and purposive sampling techniques were employed to select the respondents for the study. The sample size for the study was 224 (that is, 4 managers in the fashion industry, 196 HND fashion graduates, and 24 Fashion lecturers). Data collection instruments employed were questionnaires, interview guide, observation, and test. The study revealed that resources for teaching and learning CAD apparel development were not available in most fashion design departments. The study also revealed that most graduates were incompetent in CAD applications for apparel development. The study recommended that stakeholders in charge of providing teaching and learning resources should build computer laboratories for fashion design departments and equip them with CAD applications that are relevant in the fashion industry. The study further recommended that fashion design departments in Technical Universities should liaise with industry to train lecturers in CAD apparel development and production.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine the competency of Higher National Diploma (HND) fashion design graduates in computer-aided design (CAD) apparel development. It further sought to identify and document the CAD apparel development activities in the fashion industry and examine the availability of CAD apparel development resources in technic...
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Between Totalitarianism and Chaos: The Problem of Control and Art in Modern Culture
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
Pages:
83-89
Received:
8 February 2022
Accepted:
21 September 2022
Published:
28 September 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ajad.20220703.12
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Abstract: Control is one of the fundamental phenomena of the world civilizational process. The semantics of this term, which goes back to the roots of the Romance language (controlle), means a list or scroll with written elements. It follows from this that control as a means of managing society in any form (from Egyptian temple farms to modern subcultures) appears with the advent of writing. It is noteworthy that dreams of an ideal structure of society in antiquity or the Middle Ages were associated with a large degree of control on the verge of a totalitarian society – for example, in Plato's dialogue “About the state” or in Thomas More's book “About the best state on the island of Utopia”. Consequently, in the history of civilizations, the limit of control has determined by its excess in society – this is the phenomenon of totalitarianism, when almost all manifestations of human existence are controlled. On the other hand, it is impossible not to see that the entire human history is a series of different wars – from intertribal to world wars. War in the civilizational aspect is the apotheosis of chaos, the archaization of society as an integral organism. And this is another border of control, where its presence is minimal, and where control appears as a benefit and a security condition. In different historical epochs, control could take various forms, especially interesting are the methods of control in the epochs before the invention of the printing press. Art has always reflected the development of control in society. Especially interesting are the images of control in modern cinema, including TV series and music videos, the audience of which currently significantly exceeds the number of viewers of the “big cinema”.
Abstract: Control is one of the fundamental phenomena of the world civilizational process. The semantics of this term, which goes back to the roots of the Romance language (controlle), means a list or scroll with written elements. It follows from this that control as a means of managing society in any form (from Egyptian temple farms to modern subcultures) a...
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