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Adonteng-Kissi, Obed – Child Care in Practice, 2023
There is nearly universal consensus that child labour is harmful to the development of the child, however, widespread contention exists on whether child labour is cultural or economic necessity. This paper aimed to ascertain parental perceptions of the nature of child labour in rural and urban Ghana. The sample size of this study was 60…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Child Labor
Noelle M. Suntheimer; Sharon Wolf; Michael J. Sulik; Esinam Ami Avornyo; Jelena Obradovic – Grantee Submission, 2022
Research on the associations among adversity, executive function (EF), and academic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, where developmental risk factors are more prevalent and impoverished environments are more widespread than in high income countries, is sparse. This study examines the relations among cumulative risk, EF, and learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Executive Function, Outcomes of Education
Noelle M. Suntheimer; Sharon Wolf; Michael J. Sulik; Esinam Ami Avornyo; Jelena Obradovic – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Research on the associations among adversity, executive function (EF), and academic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, where developmental risk factors are more prevalent and impoverished environments are more widespread than in high income countries, is sparse. This study examines the relations among cumulative risk, EF, and learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Executive Function, Outcomes of Education
Azumah, Francess Dufie; Baah, Enock; Nachinaab, John Onzaberigu – Journal of Education, 2021
Illegal gold mining activities contribute tremendously to the local economy of the communities within which the practice is conducted. Despite such developments, its activities come with several environmental, economic, developmental and societal and educational challenges that governments, environmentalists, and educationalists have fought…
Descriptors: Mining, Crime, Economic Impact, Dropouts
Amagnya, Moses A. – Africa Education Review, 2020
Education is important for the successful development and growth of individuals and societies, yet some factors adversely affect its provision. This article reports on a study that explored the factors that adversely affect education in the Builsa District located in the Upper East Region (UER) of Northern Ghana, by examining the attitudes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Access to Education, Educational Attitudes
Asadi, Ghadir – Education Economics, 2020
While school enrollment at the primary level has been rising in developing countries rapidly, international measures of education quality do not exhibit a parallel improvement. Since parents' expenditure is an important determinant of children's school performance, we investigate parents' investments on quality measured by their spending on books…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Expenditures, Academic Achievement, Parent Child Relationship
Taylor, Mark – Online Submission, 2017
In Africa, approximately 80 million children are working. Africa's 41% child labor rate is nearly twice as high as that in Asia. This study examined whether child labor is a direct result of poverty or of reading and math problems in school. The study analyzed reading and math scores of 62 child laborers and 62 non-child laborers from a farming…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Poverty, Learning Problems
Byun, Soo-yong; Henck, Adrienne; Post, David – Comparative Education Review, 2014
Most existing research indicates that working students perform more poorly than do full-time students on standardized achievement tests. However, we know there are wide international variations in this gap. This article shows that national and international contexts help to explain the gap in the academic performance between working and nonworking…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students, Grade 8
Ananga, Eric – Online Submission, 2011
Addressing school dropout has been one of the most controversial elements of policy since the introduction of free compulsory universal basic education (FCUBE) in Ghana. However, research that utilises qualitative biographical detail surrounding irregular attendance and the critical events in the process that lead to dropout in Ghana is limited. I…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment
Rolleston, Caine – Online Submission, 2011
Fosterage is an important cultural institution which serves to strengthen kinship solidarity among a range of other functions including meeting needs for child labour. Its effects on education are ambiguous. This study examines fostering as a possible contributor to the low levels of educational access and progress in the district using secondary…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Foster Care
Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Adu-Yeboah, Christine – Comparative Education, 2009
This paper examines the issue of school dropout in six communities in the Savelugu-Nanton District in the Northern Region of Ghana. The study focused on 89 children (64 boys and 25 girls) aged 7-16 years, who had dropped out of school. A snowballing sampling method was employed to recruit participants to the study. Two researchers interviewed the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, At Risk Students, Attendance Patterns
Rolleston, Caine – Online Submission, 2009
The period since 1991 has seen a general improvement both in terms of household welfare and schooling participation in Ghana. This monograph explores the patterns among descriptive indicators and uses regression analysis to examine possible causal relationships with special reference to the role of education in determining welfare and its…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Family (Sociological Unit), Living Standards, Role of Education
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Verner, Dorte – 2000
The link between poverty and child labor has been regarded as a well established fact, but recent research has questioned the validity of this link. Starting from the premise that child labor is not necessarily harmful, this paper analyzes the determinants of harmful child labor, viewed as labor that directly conflicts with children's human…
Descriptors: Attendance, Child Labor, Children, Elementary Education
Heady, Christopher – 2000
This paper reports on a study that analyzed the links between child labor and poor school performance. Using data gathered in Ghana in recent years through the administration of tests, the study measured reading achievement and mathematics achievement to about half of the individuals surveyed as part of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The paper…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Child Labor, Comparative Education
Canagarajah, Sudharshan; Coulombe, Harold – 1997
This report examines the determinants of child labor in conjunction with school participation trends for children ages 7-14 in Ghana. The report is based on data from national household surveys conducted 1987-92. Specifically, the study examined the influence of variables such as child age and sex; parent's education, religion, and employment; and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children