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Carol Anne Spreen; Shari-Lee Carter – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This article will explain how a series of educator strikes in 2022 in Ghana led to increased awareness of and calls for tax justice and debt relief from a growing movement of public sector workers and civil society organisations. We chart how the issues and demands of teacher organisations and other public sector workers shifted and increased over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Teacher Strikes, Teacher Associations
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Karsgaard, Carrie; Davidson, Debra – Educational Review, 2023
In recent years, youth across the planet have begun to mobilise, motivated by the perceived injustices associated with the causes, consequences and politics of climate change. However, education systems lag behind, preoccupied with the "what" and "how" of climate change, rather than engaging it as a social issue in which…
Descriptors: Youth, Activism, Climate, Environmental Education
Adjabeng, Stanley – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to identify the status and challenges of online distance education programs in post-secondary institutions in Ghana. This study was a replication of a similar study conducted in Kenya in 2009, at the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University. This present study was conducted with an online survey using Google…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning
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Skinner, Kate – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2010
This article takes as its starting point a strike among African trainee literacy workers in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1952. While the existing literature tends to concentrate on the tensions and contradictions in British colonial education policy, this article uses the strike to investigate how these agendas were…
Descriptors: Strikes, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy