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Entry characteristics, academic achievement and teaching practices: A comparative study of two categories of newly qualified teachers in basic schools in Ghana

Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Palojoki, Paivi (Kwaah & Palojoki, Cogent Education, 2018)

Entry qualification, academic achievement, and teaching practices of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) qenrolled into the teacher education programme directly from senior high school (DfSHS) were compared with NQTs enrolled ...
Effects of Parental Attitudes Toward Spousal Violence on Early Childhood Development and Learning Support Among Ghanaian Children

Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Ewusie, Ewura - Adwoa; Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Asmah, Emmanuel Ekow (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2020)

The prevalence of condoning attitudes toward spousal violence (SV) is high in Ghana, yet much is not known about how the development of children is compromised in households where attitudes toward SV are tolerated. This ...
How language and culture affect the learning of fractions: A case study in the Kingdom of Tonga

Morris, Noah (Kingdom of Tonga. Proceedings of the IV ERME Topic Conference, 2018)

In this paper, I look at how different cultural practices go hand in hand with different discourses and how the two of them together have an impact on the learning of certain formal mathematical ideas. The findings are ...
Changing Roles of Women: Examining the Reciprocal Effects of Female Academics’ Job and Family Roles in Public Universities in Ghana

Anane, Eric; Dankwa, Juliana Audria (Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2017)

The role of women in society seems to be predefined in terms of cultural and physiological lines. Some people think the woman is not capable of taking up some executive positions, because they are weak and too feeble to ...
An Investigation of Provision of Quality Basic Education in Ghana A Case Study of Selected Schools in the Central Region

Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Davis, Ernest Kofi (Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 2008)

This study investigated teaching and learning in six private and public (rural and urban) basic schools in two districts in the Central Region of Ghana. Six headteachers and 26 teachers whose classes or lessons were ...
An Investigation of Junior High School students' ideology of fraction in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana

Amuah, Ebo; Davis, Ernest Kofi; Fletcher, Jonathan (Journal Science and Mathematics Education, 2019)

This paper reports of a study that investigated Ghanaian JHS students' understanding of selected concept of fraction. In all, nine JHS 3 students comprising, three each from high, average and low performing Junior ...
A radical-local approach to bringing cultural practices into mathematics teaching in Ghanaian primary schools, exemplified in the case of measurement

Davis, E. K.; Chaiklin, S. (African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences, 2015)

The main aim of this article is to put forward the idea of the general value of the radical-local approach to teaching and learning for the development of mathematics teaching in Ghana, both in relation to classroom ...
“We don’t understand english that is why we prefer English”: primary school students’ preference For the language of instruction in mathematics

DAVIS, ERNEST KOFI; BISHOP, ALAN J.; SEAH, WEE TIONG (International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015)

This paper reports on a study which sought to investigate how social and political influences affect students’ preference for language of instruction in mathematics in Ghana, where the language of instruction from grade ...

Entry characteristics, academic achievement and teaching practices: A comparative study of two categories of newly qualified teachers in basic schools in Ghana

Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Palojoki, Paivi (Kwaah & Palojoki, Cogent Education, 2018)

Entry qualification, academic achievement, and teaching practices of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) qenrolled into the teacher education programme directly from senior high school (DfSHS) were compared with NQTs enrolled ...
Effects of Parental Attitudes Toward Spousal Violence on Early Childhood Development and Learning Support Among Ghanaian Children

Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Ewusie, Ewura - Adwoa; Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Asmah, Emmanuel Ekow (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2020)

The prevalence of condoning attitudes toward spousal violence (SV) is high in Ghana, yet much is not known about how the development of children is compromised in households where attitudes toward SV are tolerated. This ...
How language and culture affect the learning of fractions: A case study in the Kingdom of Tonga

Morris, Noah (Kingdom of Tonga. Proceedings of the IV ERME Topic Conference, 2018)

In this paper, I look at how different cultural practices go hand in hand with different discourses and how the two of them together have an impact on the learning of certain formal mathematical ideas. The findings are ...
Changing Roles of Women: Examining the Reciprocal Effects of Female Academics’ Job and Family Roles in Public Universities in Ghana

Anane, Eric; Dankwa, Juliana Audria (Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2017)

The role of women in society seems to be predefined in terms of cultural and physiological lines. Some people think the woman is not capable of taking up some executive positions, because they are weak and too feeble to ...
An Investigation of Provision of Quality Basic Education in Ghana A Case Study of Selected Schools in the Central Region

Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Davis, Ernest Kofi (Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 2008)

This study investigated teaching and learning in six private and public (rural and urban) basic schools in two districts in the Central Region of Ghana. Six headteachers and 26 teachers whose classes or lessons were ...
An Investigation of Junior High School students' ideology of fraction in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana

Amuah, Ebo; Davis, Ernest Kofi; Fletcher, Jonathan (Journal Science and Mathematics Education, 2019)

This paper reports of a study that investigated Ghanaian JHS students' understanding of selected concept of fraction. In all, nine JHS 3 students comprising, three each from high, average and low performing Junior ...
A radical-local approach to bringing cultural practices into mathematics teaching in Ghanaian primary schools, exemplified in the case of measurement

Davis, E. K.; Chaiklin, S. (African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences, 2015)

The main aim of this article is to put forward the idea of the general value of the radical-local approach to teaching and learning for the development of mathematics teaching in Ghana, both in relation to classroom ...
“We don’t understand english that is why we prefer English”: primary school students’ preference For the language of instruction in mathematics

DAVIS, ERNEST KOFI; BISHOP, ALAN J.; SEAH, WEE TIONG (International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015)

This paper reports on a study which sought to investigate how social and political influences affect students’ preference for language of instruction in mathematics in Ghana, where the language of instruction from grade ...

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