Analysis of College Education Art Curriculum and Its Impact on Teacher Productivity at Primary Schools. The Case of Northern Ghana

This article examines the art curriculum at the colleges of education that prepares teachers at pre-service to teach creative art at the primary schools in Ghana with a focus on the northern region of the country. The study also assesses pupils’ knowledge and skills in the teaching and learning of creative art and reveals the teachers’ professional competencies of teaching creative art at the primary level. The article argues that the current teaching and learning of art as a subject at the primary schools requires improvement in the use of teaching and learning tools for effective classroom activities. Also, the quality of training received by teachers at pre-service is among factors that influence the current conditions of teaching and learning of creative arts at the primary level. The study reveals a mismatch in the relationship between the colleges of education curriculum and the basic school creative arts subject. The article suggests that the teacher training curriculum in creative arts that prepares teachers for Basic schools in Ghana and the Creative Arts syllabus for schools in Ghana are properly aligned in content knowledge. Adopting the qualitative and quantitative inquiry with descriptive and survey research methods, the instruments used for the data collection were questionnaire and interview. Keywords: Creative arts, art, curriculum, primary, college, education DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-17-15 Publication date:June 30th 202