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Abubakar-Zagoon Adams; Emmanuel Intsiful; Haruna Zagoon-Sayeed; Ato Essuman – International Journal of Training Research, 2024
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) enrollment in Ghana has been impeded by various challenges. One of the significant obstacles throughout the years has been public perception. As a result, many people prefer grammar-based schools over TVET. This study aims to investigate the operations of TVET in the Ayawaso-West Municipality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Barriers, Public Opinion
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Lucy Bailey; Mark T. Gibson – Journal of Research in International Education, 2024
This paper explores the thesis of de-globalisation in relation to international education. Through interrogating accounts of international school leadership during the COVID-19 crisis, the tension between international expectations and localised realities is charted, with four central tenets of internationalism undermined by the pandemic…
Descriptors: International Schools, Global Approach, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Dogbe, Joslin Alexei; Kyeremateng, Joana D. A.; Opoku, Maxwell Peprah; Nketsia, William; Hammond, Charles – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The challenges faced by parents raising children with cerebral palsy (CP) have been well explored in the literature. However, little attention has been paid to the experiences of parents raising children with CP in low-income countries, such as Ghana. Objective: Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore parents' experiences of raising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cerebral Palsy, Child Rearing, Sibling Relationship
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Odame, Lois; Opoku, Maxwell Peprah; Nketsia, William; Nanor, Betty – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
Equitable access to quality education has been recognised as an important human right in several international conventions. Despite the importance of education to persons with disabilities, their participation has been found to be ineffective. In the Ghanaian context, most previous studies have largely reported on barriers encountered in primary…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Graduates, Visual Impairments, Access to Education
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Butakor, Paul Kwame; Ampadu, Ernest; Suleiman, Saratu Jenepha – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
Social and inclusive education as captured under the Sustainable Development Goals enjoined most countries to implement policies to bring about education for all students. Inclusive education recognises that students come from diverse backgrounds with varied characteristics, which include different learning capacities and cognitive development.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion, Gender Differences
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Twalo, Thembinkosi – Educational Action Research, 2019
The knowledge value chain has multiple stakeholders such as researchers and policy-makers. These are conventionally knowledge producers and knowledge users, respectively. Knowledge producers and knowledge users sometimes have conflicting interests, expectations, concerns, and priorities. To mitigate these differences, one of the strategies used is…
Descriptors: Researchers, Policy Formation, Action Research, Power Structure