Cognitive Apprenticeship and the Development of Productive Learning Skills among Emerging Adults Engaged in Mechanic Work in the Informal Sector in Buea Municipality

The study is titled cognitive apprenticeship and the development of productive learning skills among emerging adults engaged in mechanic work in the informal sector in Buea Municipality. Indicators of the study include, coaching, scaffolding, and executive functioning. To find out the extent to which scaffolding impact productive learning skills among out of school emerging adults engaged in mechanic work in the informal sector in Buea Municipality. Methodologically, the study design used was quasi experimental research design. The accessible population of the study was made up of 12 apprentice between the ages 18 to 25 in mechanic garages, and 4 trainers. There were two workshops, 6 apprentices in each workshop. The study took place in Buea in Cameroon in two mechanic garages. The instruments used for data collection were questionnaire, observational checklist and interview guide. The sampling technique was purposive sampling technique. Quantitative data was entered using EpiData Version 3.1 EpiData Association, Odense Denmark, 2008 and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS Standard version, Release 21.0 IBM Inc. 2012 . Data collected from the field were subjected to both descriptive and inferential statistics. For the descriptive data, frequency distribution tables and charts were used to present and describe the data obtained. Cohen's d was used to compare assert significant difference of the inferential statistics. For scaffolding at pretest in the experimental group the mean was 9.0 and it rose to 10.4 at posttest. It was recommended that scaffolding should constantly be applied in mechanic garages by the trainers so that apprentice can gain knowledge, aptitudes, skills, competencies and become productive especially at the zone of proximal development where mediation is needed in the form of assistance, self correction, cues, hints, feedback, directives, demonstration just to name a few. Busi Ernest Neba | Patrick Fonyuy Shey | Bongwong Bruno "Cognitive Apprenticeship and the Development of Productive Learning Skills among Emerging Adults Engaged in Mechanic Work in the Informal Sector in Buea Municipality" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd27913.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/27913/cognitive-apprenticeship-and-the-development-of-productive-learning-skills-among-emerging-adults-engaged-in-mechanic-work-in-the-informal-sector-in-buea-municipality/busi-ernest-neba