MAPPING TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES IN MALAKAL

ASSIGNMENT-- RESEARCH PRACTICE

Group 1:1.Samuel Imma Romano
2.Joseph Amule Eliyuda
3.Night Clara John

THEME: Mapping technical activities in Malakal
BACKGROUND:

Mapping technical practical activities in Malakal is designed to survey and locate the craft/trade activities being carried out in the area; finding the capacity of the activities and availability of acquiring the equipment, tools and materials used. The type and size of the facilities and the source of that knowledge and skills practice in the area.
The primary aim and objective for the mapping of this technical practical activities is a research practice. That will enable possible knowledge and skills be achieved during the exercise and also finding out achievements and constraints being encountered.
The targeted craft/trades includes :
1. Building construction
2. Carpentry and joinery and
3. Plumbing and pipe fitting trades for the beginning and the other trades shall be dealt with during the other semesters and these trades comprised of:
1.Metal fabrication and welding
2.Auto-mechanic
3.Machine shop
4.Electrical installation
5.Pottery
6.Material sites

The survey methods shall includes: observation, conversation, listening, questioning, photos, videos and sound recorder when permitted to do so.
This is a research practice carried out by the pioneers of college of technical vocational education for teachers of upper Nile University currently running this program at the premises of Malakal vocational training center.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE:
This mapping of technical practical activity in Malakal has a purpose for students to know the research practice. Knowledge and skills of conducting the work and the objectives is to find the following data:
1.Identify technical practical activities in Malakal
2.Locate or map the facilities areas in Malakal
3.Find the types of craft/trade practice in Malakal
4.Find the standard/size of the facility
5.Find the equipment, machines, tools and materials use at the facility
6.Find the sources of the knowledge and skills use by the workers ( in an institution or learning at a workplace)
7.Find out the production rate and wages
8.Technical practice carried in companies, organizations in Malakal

RESEARCH METHODS:
This current research method will be used only at it's primary stage and it is use in the same time to meet the objectives of the mapping:

1.Observation ( visiting the site and observe what is happening on the ground)
2.Conversation ( talk to the manager or staff to get what being done)
3.Oral questions ( ask to find what is unknown)
4.Written documentation ( register what is most difficult to keep in memory for documentation later

RESEARCH TOOLS:
Considering the activities and availability responsive ways of approach to the sites or facility; the following could be necessary to use, either simultaneously or single, depending on the acceptance in the facility.
1.Documentation ( Taking main point from the facility authority or staff)
2.Photos ( taking photos during the conversation and oral interviews)
3.Videos ( taking films to satisfy the reader of the findings)
4.Sound recorder ( for documenting statements extracted from recorded oral interviews)
5.Data log ( for data base)

TIME-FRAME:
9:00 AM – 12:00 NOON

LOCATIONS TARGETED
4 Zones ( north-south-east-west)

DATA ANALYSIS
To come out with clear analysis of what had been uncovered in the exercise and what criteria can be done to improved the skills in the industrial sector and this analysis includes:
1.Findings –
The size of the workshop, building site or organization and its organ-graph

The location where it's situated in malakal -northern zone, southern zone, western zone or eastern zone

The trade title is the craft or type of skills being practice

The knowledge and skills practice is the activities found going during the time of visit

The equipment, tools and materials used and the safety rules and regulations applied

2.Reflection – explain about your passed professional vocational practice that you have done and observed others doing, the success and the constraints experience

3.Data analysis table 1:
Findings – set an analytic format for finding out information in responds, practice and experiences in the skills mentioned:

TRADES: The trades means craft disciplines acquired for examples;-

1. Building construction- in the trades several skills are learned and the skills have different methodology of doing it and also the principles of achieving positive results.

Some of these skills for example are:

Brick production- the site for production of clay bricks need the soil be surveyed to find out the suitable site for this purpose.
The elements suitable in the clay includes silica and alumina when mix in their rquired proportions brings a good quality of bricks.
When alumina is more than 75% of the mix; the brick may wrap and form very many cracks; so more silica need to be added; the proportion of silica should not be less than 25% of the mix.

Bricklaying- this is assembling of bricks to form walls that will independent stand firm on its' own. The knowledge and skills of doing the job needs identification of the types of bonds and the principles of bonding.
The tools used in this process of bonding and the knowledge used in handling the tools to bring accurate walls.
The geometrical concepts of setting the wall design. Taking measurements' reading scales, units etc.
setting openings with use of reveals and jambs methods.

Concreting- functional requirements of concrete, materials used for the concrete, types of concrete, advantages and disadvantages and qualities in concrete, curing.

Plaster work- principles of plaster work; types of plaster, preparation of the background, materials suitable for plaster, advantages and disadvantages.

Pointing – functional requirement of pointing/jointing, types of pointing and jointing, merits of pointing to jointing, materials and preparation of the background.

Drainage – functions of drainage system, design of a system, materials used for the construction, advantages and disadvantages of drainage system in sanitation.

Attitudes of the community towards acquiring the skills:

through observing the community in responding to your skill explanations and encouragement; you will summarized if they have interest or not.
The practice experience:
Those skills mentioned above need daily practice and this comes about when you like doing enough in your professional practice and this is what will develop experience in long run in practice.

Experience always comes when you constantly continue to practice skills that can improve more professional practice

Carpentry and joinery

Bench work:
-Safety rules and regulations
-tools and materials used
- Measuring system
- Designs

Joinery:
- Types of joints and applications
- types of furnitures produced

Types of roofs:
- Gable ends
-Hipped roof
- lean roof
Use of roof

wood seasoning:
Methods of seasoning timbers
-natural seasoning
-artificial seasoning
Advantages and disadvantages

preservation
-Types of preservative
- application
-precautions

Plumbing and pipe fitting:
Plumbing and pipe fitting is a trade that deals with construction of water supply system, drainage system, and disposal to treatment plant:

1/ Waste water system is that pipe line which drains used water from kitchen, showers, laundry and disposed it to the final treatment

2/ Soil water system is that pipe system which conveys the solid waste from toilets, urine from urinal and rainwater from the roofs and the ground water from the pavement to the last disposal treatment (septic tank)

3/ the drainage system is the underground foul water system that conveys liquids by gravity through the reposed gradient. Or the pipe line from the buildings to the point of treatment including the inspection chambers and the manholes

4/ plumbing general means dealing with the supply of water from the source to the clients.
These system includes the vertical and horizontal pipe systems and the system can use water pressure for pumping the water for supply.

4.Data analysis table 2: categorical-form analysis
Questions for builders, carpenters and plumbers to evaluate their responds in professional vocational skills:

1/ Are there needs for attending basic knowledge and skills training?
Why, if there is no needs?
2/ If acceptable, what do you expect to learn from the course?
3/ Are the training centers rewarding in terms of improving or learning basic knowledge and skills?
Have you improve your skills?
4/ Are your products earning huge money?
5/ Should new knowledge and skills be added to improve the current curriculum in the vocational center or improve the quality of the out put in the industrial market?
Which are current skills that need improvement?

6/ Have you transfer what you have learned from the curriculum and put them into practice?

7/ Which knowledge and skill do you want to learn?

8/Do the semi-skill workers have an interest in learning in the formal skill learning centers or consider getting skills in workplaces?
9/Why do you prefer learning in vocational centers than learning in workplace?

Reference:
The analysis of cognitive functioning reflecting capacity built up skills- experiential (Gottschelle- 1994)

Mapping Guide:

Stages:
1/ Mapping identified industrials areas and introduction
Prioritizing the sites for future revisits
2/ Revisiting for observation and conversation
To find exactly the technical abilities and share with them your experience as a professional
3/ Revisiting for finding skills applied and sharing oral questions
For finding necessary points and ideas that will be documented and consolidate links with them for continuous communication