Relevance of the- School Curriculum in the Application of Cognitive and Practical Skills in Crafts: A Study of Carpentry and Metalwork Municipality, in Eldoret Kenya.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine if the primary and secondary school curricula function appropriately in Eldoret in crafts. Municipality, The data was collected and interview graduates District,Kenya from a sample 5 to The study was conducted through questionnaires, employed school graduates and school Uasin Gishu schedules respectively prepare in metalwork observations of 41 and 52 self- and carpentry proprietors and/or crafts experienced carpenters. Cognitive crafts and practical were tabulations, analysis. skills used by school graduates studied. Descriptive frequencies and percentages Data was interpreted basis of the available Th~ study revealed that knowledge and skills predominantly through apprenticeship appropriately in their school curriculum, graduates with basic cra ft en try in the application equip an individual school and cannot make craftsmen metalwork The to on the from school and skills from outside trades. Skills were used in data data in tables. Knowledge inefficient involving by making inferences alone without function statistics in and carpentry particularly prepares ski 11 s and of cognitive for direct thus it is and practical employment in effective in crafts. Although the imparting some numeracy, primary, for school knowledge business and and was skills literacy, were found to lack sufficient instruction. Limit curriculum time for The overloaded practical found namely, schools, especiallytools and materials curriculum learning measuring, in was craft found to subjects.IV Teacher effectiveness questionable. in craft Recommendations developers, school committees, teacher training shortcomings colleges so as to make in theapplication education was also that for curriculum call found education administrators to come up and counteract the school of cognitive and crafts have been put in this study. Curriculum practical and these relevant skills in