GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

The main objective of this paper was to investigate the role of textile mentorship in the textile educational system with implications for entrepreneurial skill development. It is observed that mentorship, just like education, played a very important role in developing textile art skills. Moreover, this paper tries to showcase the value of mentorship in teaching and learning textiles in the four walls of a classroom. Education is the art of learning, the acquisition of knowledge, skills, beliefs, and values of a given system, place, state, and country. On the other hand, mentorship is the art of being guided, advising, helping, and showing the process to derive a unique, rightful destination or end. Mentorship skills are almost just like educational mentorship, whereby they stimulate individual thoughts, emotions, beliefs, interest, passion, and ideas through the utilisation of the senses of the three domains of learning (cognitive—acquiring knowledge by the use of reasoning; psychomotor—bodily movement triggered by mental activities; and affective domain—emotional expression and feelings). It is instructive to know that education and mentorship skills go together in exploring textile expertise skills in the fashion world of today. Textile designers have become alert and are desperately searching for the best designs. Transformation in the textile industry is enhanced by mentorship. The study therefore highlights the interdependency of textiles mentorship and the textile educational system in fostering human growth, needs, and ever-desirous numerous wants in our developing society. The study therefore recommended that textiles should be allowed to be taught and explored and practiced both at home with individuals through mentorship. Mentorship should be incorporated into schools curricula where professional teachers are utilised in instructional dwelling. The government should, at intervals, put up exhibitions and workshops to encourage textile practitioners through mentoring. The government should employ professional textile teachers to impact the students with essential skills and knowledge through effective and adequate mentorship, among other things.

Keywords: Textile, Mentorship, educational system.