Education In Post Colonial Ghana

Author : G. M. Osei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000066112891

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Education in Post-colonial Ghana by G. M. Osei Pdf

The prospect of redistributing power from central government offices to local actors and organisations has repeatedly tantalised academics, politicians and policy makers promulgating decentralisation measures in hopes that such action would cure the social and economic ills faced by their policies. Education planners in Accra regarded decentralisation as an important strategy for raising the quality and status of Ghanian education. The Ministry of Education (MOE) was depending on the local content curriculum (LCC) to achieve many things. As MOE officials observed, however, the success or failure of the reform essentially depended on the actions of classroom teachers. Even if plans for the reform were carefully designed and communicated by experts in Accra, goals for the reform would not be met unless teachers implemented the reform as envisioned by its authors. When the Ghanian government enacted the LCC reform it was depending on classroom teachers to take a leading role in the process of educational decentralisation. The one goal that all members of the system appeared to have most thoroughly absorbed was the notion that as a result of the changes outlined in LCC policy documents, the curriculum in Ghanian schools should more closely mesh with local conditions. St. Aquinas junior high school, a private Catholic institution was the only school I visited where teachers were willing to question and modify policies created in Accra. Rather than obediently follow instructions from Accra, St. Aquinas employees reshaped MOE policies to meet their own educational philosophies and objectives. My research indicates that the MOE has not yet commenced to rebuild the culture of education to fit the new vision of teaching and learning it is promoting. Instead, it is attempting to append the LCC reform to an existing core, with only minor modifications.

Author : Philomena Osseo-Asare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000363319

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The Impacts of Language and Literacy Policy on Teaching Practices in Ghana by Philomena Osseo-Asare Pdf

This text critically examines changes in Ghanaian language and literacy policy following independence in 1957 to consider its impacts on early literacy teaching. By adopting a postcolonial theoretical perspective, the text interrogates the logic behind policy changes which have prioritised English, local language, or biliteracy. It draws on data from interviews with teachers and researcher observation to demonstrate how policies have influenced teaching and learning. Dr Osseo-Asare’s findings inform the development of a conceptual framework which highlights the socio-cultural factors that impact the literacy and biliteracy of young children in Ghana, offering solutions to help teachers combat the challenges of frequent policy changes. This timely monograph will prove to be an essential resource not only for researchers working on education policies, teacher education, and English-language learning in postcolonial Ghana but also for those looking to identify the thematic and methodological nuances of studying literacy and education in postcolonial contexts.

Author : Kiluba L. Nkulu
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820476269

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Serving the Common Good by Kiluba L. Nkulu Pdf

Serving the Common Good combines critical analysis and interpretation of theory and practice for higher education in Africa and in the West. It demonstrates the current urgent need to articulate an educational ideal relevant to the cultural, economic, political, and social problems of the twenty-first century. Utilizing Julius K. Nyerere's vision of education for the common good - a pragmatically balanced articulation of a postcolonial African perspective on higher education - Kiluba L. Nkulu emphasizes a human-centered approach to community and national development. Serving the Common Good offers a provocative and unique perspective on the state of higher education in Africa, and will be useful in courses on African Studies, Education and Society, Educational Foundations and Inquiry, Higher Education and Leadership, Political Economy, and Sociology.

Author : Charles Prempeh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956552214

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Nima-Maamobi in Ghana's Postcolonial Development by Charles Prempeh Pdf

This book provides a deep insight into the socio-economic reality and complexity of two of Ghana's largest slums - Nima and Maamobi - located in the capital city, Accra. It identifies and analyses the socio-religious, cultural and political contexts of the two communities. These are ethnically and religiously diverse populations with a common history of migration and integration. The book shows that the causes of economic stagnation and underdevelopment in the two slums are deeply contextualised, complex and nuanced. Through a biographical examination of the political activism of Agnes Amoah, a foremost local leader, the book brings to bear how Mrs. Amoah also brought socio-economic transformation to the communities by breaking cultural, religious and gender barriers in the interest of conviviality. In context, the book sheds important insight on the urban, political and the local and translocal histories that have shaped the social transformations of Nima and Maamobi.

Author : Michael Oládèjo Afoláyan
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : UCSC:32106018619160

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Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa by Michael Oládèjo Afoláyan Pdf

Author : George Jerry Sefa Dei
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Community and school
ISBN : 1592210031

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Schooling and Education in Africa by George Jerry Sefa Dei Pdf

Using the Ghanian schooling experience as a case study, this book explores how research can contribute to the development of a body of knowledge for educational change in Africa. Education in Africa is often said to be in a crisis' caused in part by the colonial legacy, but also due to inappropriate and uncontextualised current educational policies in relation to local human conditions and African realities. This book offers a critical analysis of current educational reform strategies and the actual practice of reform in an African context.'

Author : Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah,Edmond Akwasi Agyeman,Bea Lundt
Publisher : Langaa RPCID
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9956553999

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Education in Ghana by Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah,Edmond Akwasi Agyeman,Bea Lundt Pdf

This volume arises from a cooperation between Ghanaian and German academics. It answers the need to have a more comprehensive and up to date volume which addresses key topics, areas and problems of the Ghanaian education system with a focus on history, policy, and curriculum-related issues. For many years now there have not been new comprehensive publications in this field, and it is necessary to introduce a lot of recent changes in Ghana's education system and reflect about their challenges. The information and positions collected in this volume will be of interest to Policy Makers, Educators, Lecturers, Scholars, Students, Teachers, Parents and other interested people of Ghana and other (West)-African countries. The book will also be of great interest to international scholars who want to understand the Ghanaian education system or are involved in academic projects such as internship, exchange programmes and joint research activities with Ghanaian academics and educational institutions. "One of the boldest elements of this book lies in the introduction. It invites readers to consider looking at education from a series of wide-angled perspectives which bring home the impacts of political and ideological hegemonies on the evolution of education in Ghana over time ... The editors make the point that they intend for the book to raise issues. Well, it most certainly has, and this has led to a rather eclectic volume which speaks to a wide range of educational matters." Esi Sutherland-Addy, Associate Professor, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah (PhD) is a senior lecturer in the Department of History Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana and a senior research associate in the Department of History, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Bea Lundt is Prof. (emer.) of History and still teaches at the Europe University Flensburg (Germany). She is also Guest-Professor at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Ghana. Her research focuses are mainly on Gender, (Post-)Colonialism and Narrations on a Global Stage. She is building up cooperations with West African Universities and has published numerous books together with colleagues from various African countries. Edmond Akwasi Agyeman (PhD) is an associate professor at the Centre for African Studies of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) (Ghana). He holds a PhD in Migration Studies from UP Comillas in Madrid (Spain). He has held visiting lectureship positions at the University of Hamburg and the University of Passau (Germany).

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0719062748

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Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana by Stephanie Newell Pdf

Considering the literary habits - production, reception, selection - in a colonial Ghana, this study provides empirical and statistical data of how colonial literature is absorbed - and coins the new term paracolonial to better describe the ebb and flow of influence and creativity. It shows how colonial West Africa (the Gold Coast) adapted to an imposed education system and developed its own indigenous cultural representation, far beyond the previously conceived limited vocabularly of simple mimicry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087904401

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Education and Social Development by Anonim Pdf

The book contains important criticisms of the historical developments of education, the meanings and changing intersections of development, schooling, citizenships and their exclusions, and the important interplays of globalization, knowledge, culture and languages.

Author : Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789956553167

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Education in Ghana by Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah Pdf

This volume arises from a cooperation between Ghanaian and German academics. It answers the need to have a more comprehensive and up to date volume which addresses key topics, areas and problems of the Ghanaian education system with a focus on history, policy, and curriculum-related issues. For many years now there have not been new comprehensive publications in this field, and it is necessary to introduce a lot of recent changes in Ghanas education system and reflect about their challenges. The information and positions collected in this volume will be of interest to Policy Makers, Educators, Lecturers, Scholars, Students, Teachers, Parents and other interested people of Ghana and other (West)-African countries. The book will also be of great interest to international scholars who want to understand the Ghanaian education system or are involved in academic projects such as internship, exchange programmes and joint research activities with Ghanaian academics and educational institutions. Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah (PhD) is a senior lecturer in the Department of History Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana and a senior research associate in the Department of History, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Bea Lundt is Prof. (emer.) of History and still teaches at the Europe University Flensburg (Germany). She is also Guest-Professor at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Ghana.

Author : Damiano Matasci,Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo,Hugo Gonçalves Dores
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030278014

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Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by Damiano Matasci,Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo,Hugo Gonçalves Dores Pdf

This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering their necessity and risk, and evaluating their intended and unintended consequences in colonial and postcolonial moments. Since the late nineteenth century, the “educability” of the native was the subject of several debates and experiments: numerous voices, arguments, and agendas emerged, involving multiple institutions and experts, governmental and non-governmental, religious and laic, operating from the corridors of international organizations to the towns and rural villages of Africa. This plurality of expressions of political, social, cultural, and economic imagination of education and development is at the core of this collective work.

Author : James Kwaku Ocansey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000011799405

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Restructuring Colonial Education for Promoting Rural Economic Development by James Kwaku Ocansey Pdf

Author : Maxwell A. Aziabah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319937618

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The Politics of Educational Reform in Ghana by Maxwell A. Aziabah Pdf

This book comprises six main chapters and addresses the core research question: How can the endurance of academic bias in Ghana’s secondary education system be explained in the context of educational reform versus change of government concurrence? Six sub-questions have subsequently been derived from the core research question, enabling a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the subject matter of investigation. The manuscript adopts an historical institutionalism approach, combining path dependency with partisan theory in explicating structural persistence in the secondary school system in Ghana. A case study methodological design procedure has been employed in the investigation of three episodes of educational reform, anchored on qualitative content analysis as the main data reduction mechanism.

Author : Gaile Sloan Cannella,Radhika Viruru
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415933471

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Childhood and Postcolonization by Gaile Sloan Cannella,Radhika Viruru Pdf

This book opens the door to the effects of intellectual, educational, and economic colonization of young children throughout the world. Using a postcolonial lens on current educational practices, the authors hope to lift those practices out of reproducing traditional power structures and push our thinking beyond the adult/child dichotomy into new possibilities for the lives that are created with children.

Author : Dmitri M. Bondarenko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666940473

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Post-Colonial Nations in Historical and Cultural Context by Dmitri M. Bondarenko Pdf

Using historical and anthropological analysis, this book examines the changing characteristics of nations globally; nation-building in Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia; and the history of multi-culturalism in the Global South as an advantage to development in post-colonial conceptions of the nation.