Abstract
Most children have an inborn playfulness, sense of creativity and drive for experimentation which is often suppressed as they grow up by societal standards and the education system. It would make sense to rather stimulate and develop this innate creativity at a young age instead of inhibiting it, especially in the South African context with its high potential for creativity in order to support a preneurial (Entrepreneurially orientated) mindset. The purpose of this study was to develop a clothing design training toolkit as intervention to support preneurial behaviour of primary school children in a creative sewing and design programme. This study consisted of three main objectives, namely, to explore and describe the preneurial behaviour of primary school children in the extracurricular clothing design programme, secondly, to develop a toolkit that supports creative problem-solving during the clothing design process for primary school children in the extracurricular clothing design programme. And lastly to implement, observe and evaluate the effect of the toolkit on the preneurial competence of those same primary school children in the extracurricular clothing design programme in order to make further recommendations for the toolkit. Action research was conducted in three stages that took place during two cycles. The research methods are qualitative and include observations of video footage, purpose-statement help-sheets and visual analysis of products produced by participants...
M.A. (Fashion Design)