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Describe the development of barbering
Level
2
Credits
3
Purpose
This is a theory-based unit standard for people in the barbering industry who
wish to gain basic knowledge of the development of the barbering trade.
People credited with this unit standard are able to describe the development
of the barbering trade and the development of barbering fashion.
Subfield
Beauty Services
Domain
Barbering
Status
Registered
Status date
20 February 2009
Date version published
20 February 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2014
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
NZ Hairdressing Industry Training Organisation Inc
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0020
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
None.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Describe the development of the barbering trade.
Performance criteria
1.1
The description outlines the effect of influences upon the trade, and identifies
the social and economic status and associated roles of the trade.
Range
1.2
The description identifies impacts of twentieth and twenty-first century
technological developments on the barbering trade.
Range
1.3
influences – medical, cultural and/or religious;
evidence is required for four periods in time spanning at least two
thousand years.
impacts – skills, speed of performance.
The description identifies the origin, significance, and meaning of the barber
pole.
Element 2
Describe the development of barbering fashion.
Performance criteria
2.1
The description identifies relationships between various influences and
barbering fashion.
Range
2.2
The description identifies origins of hairstyling constructions in barbering.
Range
2.3
military, class structure; two of – religious, cultural, musical.
short back and sides, flattop (or crewcut), college cut, sculptured
cut.
Examples of barbering hairstyles are identified.
Range
personal, political, fashion statements.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
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Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the NZ Hairdressing Industry Training Organisation Inc
enquiries@hito.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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