http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/82 2026-04-04T09:17:38Z http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/4840 The Impact of TVET on Ghana’s Socio-Economic Development: A Case Study of ICCES TVET Skills Training in Two Regions of Ghana Pongo, N.A. Integrated Community Centre for Employable Skills (ICCES) is an agency under the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare with policy objective of filling the gap in employment generation by developing the young human resources in line with the poverty alleviation goal of the government of Ghana. The purpose of the study was to find out how the ICCES training programmes are achieving their purpose of increasing access of young person’s to skills acquisition and empowerment for productive employment. To harness the needed information, questionnaire, interview and observation, were employed in gathering data from the subjects. The results suggest that participants in the survey had all conferred that the programmes have being helpful to the communities in securing suitable employment that allows them to generate income within the social, family and financial constraints that they face in their communities and as such their social and economic status has being impacted positively. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/997 Imaging: The ‘constructor’ of modern, post-modern and contemporary life. Sosu, S.A.; Kpodo, C.S.; Glover, R.A. Photography has become ubiquitous in contemporary experience, manifesting mostly onscreen. This paper explores the scopophilic trends of modern, post-modern and contemporary living as anticipated in the work of Freud and affirmed by Lacan in the coinage scopic regime. It explores how pervasive imaging has become today and exposes how layered the visual can be in contemporary society. Locating photography’s place in contemporary experience brings into focus decades of thought on semiotic discussions. These discussions introduce the political, social and cultural aspects of photographic experience from the 18th century till date. Enwezor’s reflections on the ubiquity, form and power that the image wields especially on contemporary society, condense these contextual implications the image conjures. Our conclusion is that, despite the unease about the impact of the image on society, it seems to have come to stay as a constructor of contemporary life. This paper therefore introduces the photographic image and highlights some of the concerns that surfaced with its introduction. Important theories and trends are discussed with respect to the proliferation of the image today. The imaging technologies and culture of modern men are explored while the coded messages that images transmit are exposed. Views and projections of critical thinkers from different generations and locations are helpful in analyzing the culture of viewing that has pervaded the living conditions of the 21st century citizen. The conclusion is clearly a matter of interpretation since the discovery of the truth in an image is subjective. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/995 From students’ pop band to a trans-african international band: A historical case study of Ghana Bigshots Band Coffie, M.M. The purpose of this study was to construct a concise historical narrative of the formation, development, survival and internationalisation of the Ghana Bigshots Band. It is quite unusual for a pop band to emerge from a Ghanaian university and still survive after school, considering both the academic and industry challenges. The Ghana Bigshots Band, arguably Ghana’s first modern ‘Afro-fusion’ band emerged from a university and came to international prominence. The band has broken the myth of the ‘ivory tower’, where the academia disassociates itself from the realities of the society. Employing interview and documentary research for data collection, the paper consequently unravels that the transition from students’ pop band to a trans-African international band was capital intensive. However, the consistency of maintaining an African identity in the band’s compositions and the ideology of blending tradition and modernity accounted for its survival and internationalisation. This study, is, therefore, recommended as a roadmap for student-musicians who wish to take their craft beyond the academic enclave. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/992 Saying it the Artist's way: An aesthetical discourse on selected works of Art from the Department of Art Education, UEW deGraft-Yankson, P. This paper is intended to project the inherent beauties and communicative essentials of the creative works produced by students and lecturers of Department of Art Education in the University of Education, Winneba. These works are poorly displayed at obscure corners of the University and are accorded the least of regards in the University’s inventory. Through aesthetic discourse, this paper brings out the value of three selected works of art – one conceptual painting, one abstract painting and one sculpture in the round. The revelations of the kind of beauty these works exude coupled with the messages they put across give justification to the need, not only to take good care of these works, but to really find ways of putting them within the public domain. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z